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Lyr Add: Song from a Cotton Field (P Grainger)
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Subject: Lyr Add: SONG FROM A COTTON FIELD (P Grainger) From: Jim Dixon Date: 14 Mar 14 - 01:33 PM I discovered this extraordinary song while searching for something else. It's a bluesy song accompanied by a jazz band. SONG FROM A COTTON FIELD Written by Porter Grainger As recorded by Bessie Brown on Brunswick 4409, 1929.* [A] Hey, hee, hi, ho, pickin' cotton all day. Hey, hee, hi, ho, just a-pickin' away. White folks knows I'm workin'. They knows gon' be no shirkin'. Hee, hi, ho, I knows I'll get my pay. [B] Ain't no use kickin' 'cause I'll be pickin' Till all my children is grown, Then I'll shuffle and skip and scuffle To have a field of my own. All my life, I've been makin' it. All my life, white folks takin' it. This old heart, they's just breakin' it. Ain't got a thing to show for what I done done. But things get brighter; loads get lighter. I'll keep a-pluggin' [or "pluckin'"?] away. Sing my song like I'm happy and gay, All day. Just tell the world for me: My soul's done set me free. That's the song I'll sing till they put me under the clay. [C] Oh, chil'en, stop your grumblin'. Oh, that's a block for stumblin'. Just keep on workin' and praisin'. You'll see that you'll conquer someday. [Instrumental break] [Repeat part B.] - - - * This recording appears on 3 albums: "Music of the Lost Generation 1910's – 1930's" "(Original) Bessie Brown (1925-1929) & Liza Brown (1929)" Document Records DOCD-5456. "Old Country Songs from Down on the Farm, Vol. 1" You can also hear it on YouTube (but I believe there are some mistakes in the on-screen lyrics). |
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