Pick a Bale of Cotton - The Delta Skiffle Group

One of the forgotten groups of 1950's British skiffle

Category:

Music

Tags:

• skiffle
• jazz
• trad
• traditional
• donegan
• delta
• leadbelly

[Americanbanjoman76]

why are british people singing this song in the first place?

[maolchalium]

Cos it's a good song!

[maolchalium]

I'm getting lazy. I've used the same visuals as I did on the Donegan version of this.

[Dennisdread]

All good, but Leadbelly's rules.

[Sabbatai]

@Americanbanjoman76 Why not? No seriously, why not?

[85grei]

This one is better: We had fun, we had joy, we had niggers on the run but the fun didnt last because the niggers ran too fast

[skifflefestival]

@mooncrow1988 Ja, das tun sie. Teachers like those songs, because they are easy to learn, and they can secretly teach a little bit of english and a little bit of history by the way. And anyway the germans like Songs in English (or french or...) I think because in foreign languages you only have to listen to the words if you choose. If you listen to songs in your own language you often can't help to realize how simple the lyrics are.

[mooncrow1988]

@psweep Well, are you referring to the industrial age of England? If so then they chose that. They chose to become indentured servants. The Africans who sang these songs were forced to be slaves. And lets not forget it was the English(and the Dutch) who enslaved the Africans to America in the first place. Not to mention the Irish. Think the "The Great Crusades".

[mooncrow1988]

@psweep That is a good point, however it has nothing to do with the song. The song is not about the bigger picture. It's about the monotony of having to pick cotton day after day.

[mooncrow1988]

@Mr1887HSV1887 Meine Übersetzungen möglicherweise nicht richtig sein. Wollen Sie damit sagen, dass die Schulen in Europa lehren alte African-American Slave Songs?

[mooncrow1988]

@uselessyardape That's not an ignorant statement at all, is it? Did you use that stunning intellect, racial empathy and pride when you picked that email address as well?

[kylecyclopdoddsmole]

@andenisa hahaha!!!

[psweep]

There were slaves in the Cotton fields full of slaves. There were mills full of Slaves. It's not Black vs. White or visa vi, it's the rich vs. the poor. Racism is the divide so no-one sees the bigger picture. Agreed