"'Pick A Bale Of Cotton' is a horrible song not because of how it sounds, but because of what it celebrates. How sick to look at it any other way. "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" is the song of the former Hitler Youth that still reverberates among the young fascists of today. Do we get children to sing it because it is "anthemic" and "choral" and has a significant European history. I don't think so."

"Thanks for the comment Micheal Morris but the song has nuthin' to do with Leadbelly - ever"

Hilda Fish-

I too am puzzled by your response to my post. You said that Leadbelly's "Pick A Bale of Cotton" is "a horrible song...because of what it celebrates," and you compared it to a song appropriated by the Nazis. As Greg Stephens and others have pointed out, Leadbelly's popular version of "Pick a Bale of Cotton" is a bragging song, it dates to the early twentieth century, and it has no connection to slavery or the Hitler Youth.