Dit nummer wilde ik plaatsen in de muziekrubriek omdat het mij aan zomerse dagen van weleer, 1970 om precies te zijn, herinnert. Programmaleider van RNI, Roger Day, fervent Beach Boys-fan, hield dit lang in de Nifty Fifty.
Toen verdween het nummer samen met hem na de malle campagne voor de Tories vanaf het schip. Hij was geen Tory, beklemtoont hij alsnog.
Enfin, de Beach Boys als countryrock.
When I was a little baby
My mother would rock me in the cradle
In them old, old cotton fields at home
When I was a little baby
My mother would rock me in the cradle
In them old, old cotton fields at home
Oh, when them cotton bolls get rotten
You couldn’t pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields at home
It was down in Louisiana
Just a mile from Texarkana
In them old, old cotton fields at home
It may sound a little funny
But, you didn’t make very much money
In them old cotton fields at home
It may sound a little funny
But, you didn’t make very much money
In them old, old cotton fields at home
Oh, when them cotton bolls get rotten
You couldn’t pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields at home
It was down in Louisiana
Just a mile from Texarkana
In them old, old cotton fields at home
I was over in Arkansas
People ask me, “What you come here for?”
In them old cotton fields at home
I was over in Arkansas
People ask me, “What you come here for?”
In them old, old cotton fields at home
Oh, when those cotton bolls get rotten
You can’t pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields at home
It was down in Louisiana
Just a mile from Texarkana
In them old, old cotton fields at home
Oh, when those cotton bolls get rotten
You can’t pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields at home
It was down in Louisiana
Just a mile from Texarkana
In them old, old cotton fields at home
Het klinkt als een traditional maar het heeft een Oorspronkelijke Versie, een van de vele nummers die op naam staan van Lead Belly. De oeropname dateert uit de gevangenis in Louisiana, 1941, dit is de plaatopname uit 1947.
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