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Cotton Fields

Lead Belly
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COTTON FIELDS


When I was a little baby
My mother rocked me in my cradle
In them old cotton fields back home.

When I was a little baby
My mother rocked me in my cradle
In them old cotton fields back home.

Oh when those coton balls get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home.

It was down in Louisiana
Just ten miles from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home.

It may sound a little funny
But you didn't make much money
In them old coton fields back home.

It may sound a little funny
But you didn't make much money
In them old coton fields back home.

Oh when those coton balls get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home.

It was down in Louisiana
Just ten miles from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home.

I was over in Arkansas
People ask me what you come here for
In them old cotton fields back home.

I was over in Arkansas
People ask me what you come here for
In them old cotton fields back home.

Oh when those coton balls get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home.

It was down in Louisiana
Just ten miles from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home.

Oh when those coton balls get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home.

It was down in Louisiana
Just ten miles from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home.
PUUVILLAPELLOT

Enhän ollut vielä kovin vanha,
kun äiti minut pellon reunaan laittoi.
Kehtoon pieneen tuo laulu kantautui.

Siellä heimoveljet kovin raatoi,
piiska pomon monta miestä kaatoi.
Kehtoon pieneen tuo ääni kantautui.

Niin siitä pikkuhiljaa vartuin,
minäkin, ja työhön tartuin.
Kehtoon toiseen jo laulu kantautui.

Eikä Massa Johnson mitään voinut,
vaikka laulu duurissa ei soinut,
peliin julmaan kun kerran antautui.

Äänet kantatuivat yli pellon,
kun faija jostain hommas' vanhan sellon.
Pojanpoikaa hän alkoi opettaa.

Tuskin ehti soittaa yhden kerran,
kun jo sellon veivät lapset herran.
Eihän orjat saa mitään omistaa.

Niin silti jatkui laulu hiljaa,
kädet mustat poimi viljaa.
Pomon piiska taas lauloi lauluaan.

Eikä Massa Johnson mitään voinut,
vaikka laulu duurissa ei soinut.
Vanha korppi tuskin muistaa nauruaan.

Enhän ollut vielä kovin vanha,
kun äiti minut pellon reunaan laittoi.
Kehtoon pieneen tuo laulu kantautui.

Siellä heimoveljet kovin raatoi,
piiska pomon monta miestä kaatoi.
Kehtoon pieneen tuo ääni kantautui.


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