[ti:Song from a Cotton Field]
[ar:Bessie Brown]
[al:Music of the Lost Generation 1910's - 1930's]
[by:]
[offset:0]
[00:00.00]Song from a Cotton Field - Bessie Brown/Avon Cities Skiffle Group/Fannie Davis/Louis Metcalf
[00:05.95]Hey hee hi ho pickin' cotton all day
[00:11.25]Hey hee hi ho just a pickin' away
[00:16.30]White folks knows I'm workin'
[00:18.61]They knows gon' be no shirkin'
[00:21.77]Hee hi ho I knows I'll get my pay
[00:26.51]Ain't no use kickin' 'cause I'll be pickin'
[00:29.48]Till all my children is grown
[00:32.22]Then I'll shuffle and skip and scuffle
[00:34.92]To have a field of my own
[00:37.38]All my life I've been makin' it
[00:40.09]All my life white folks takin' it
[00:42.73]This old heart they's just breakin' it
[00:45.69]Ain't got a thing to show for what I done done
[00:47.99]But things get brighter; loads get lighter
[00:50.88]I'll keep a pluckin' away
[00:53.61]Sing my song like I'm happy and gay
[00:57.24]All day
[00:58.61]Just tell the world for me: My soul's done set me free
[01:03.91]That's the song I'll sing till they put me under the clay
[01:09.73]Oh chil'en stop your grumblin'
[01:15.18]Oh that's a block for stumblin'
[01:20.64]Just keep on workin' and praisin'
[01:25.71]You'll see that you'll conquer someday
[01:53.01]Ain't no use kickin' I'll be pickin'
[01:55.70]Till all my children is grown
[01:58.44]And I'll shuffle and skip and scuffle
[02:01.08]To have a field of my own
[02:03.83]All my life I've been makin' it
[02:06.54]All my life white folks takin' it
[02:09.23]This old heart they's just breakin' it
[02:12.03]Ain't got a thing to show for what I done done
[02:14.57]But things get brighter; loads get lighter
[02:17.51]I'll keep a pluckin' away
[02:20.52]Sing my song like I'm happy and gay
[02:24.07]All day
[02:25.36]Just tell the world for me: My soul's done set me free
[02:30.78]That's the song I'll sing till they put me under the clay