Song from A Cotton Field - Bessie Brown&Henderson's Hot Six

[00:00.0]Song from A Cotton Field - Bessie Brown/Henderson's Hot Six
[00:06.13]Hey hee hi ho picking cotton all day
[00:11.32]Hey hee hi ho just a-picking away
[00:16.63]White folks knows I'm working
[00:19.18]They knows gon' be no shirking
[00:21.84]Hee hi ho I knows I'll get my pay
[00:26.88]Ain't no use kicking 'cause I'll be picking
[00:29.73]Till all my children is grown
[00:32.51]Then I'll shuffle and skip and scuffle
[00:34.95]To have a field of my own
[00:37.6]All my life I've been making it
[00:40.21]All my life white folks taking it
[00:42.9]This old heart they's just breaking it
[00:45.67]Ain't got a thing to show for what I done done
[00:48.45]But things get brighter loads get lighter
[00:51.05]I'll keep a-plucking away
[00:53.9]Sing my song like I'm happy and gay
[00:57.31]All day
[00:58.68]Just tell the world for me
[01:01.27]My soul's done set me free
[01:03.92]That's the song I'll sing till they put me under the clay
[01:09.64]Oh chil'en stop your grumbling
[01:15.04]Oh that's a block for stumbling
[01:20.62]Just keep on working and praising
[01:25.479996]You'll see that you'll conquer someday
[01:52.479996]Ain't no use kicking 'cause I'll be picking
[01:55.32]Till all my children is grown
[01:58.06]Then I'll shuffle and skip and scuffle
[02:00.68]To have a field of my own
[02:03.39]All my life I've been making it
[02:06.05]All my life white folks taking it
[02:08.77]This old heart they's just breaking it
[02:11.36]Ain't got a thing to show for what I done done
[02:14.13]But things get brighter loads get lighter
[02:16.9]I'll keep a-plucking away
[02:19.77]Sing my song like I'm happy and gay
[02:23.29001]All day
[02:24.88]Just tell the world for me
[02:27.36]My soul's done set me free
[02:30.02]That's the song
[02:30.94]I'll sing till they put me under the clay