Pick a Bale of Cotton

Notation: traditional
PDF Files: American

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Jump down, turn around to
pick a bale of cotton,
Jump down, turn around to
pick a bale a day.
Chorus:
    Oh Lordy, pick a bale of cotton,
    Oh Lordy, pick a bale a day.

That nigger from Shiloh can
pick a bale of cotton
That nigger from Shiloh
can pick a day.
Chorus

Ol' Eli, pick a bale of cotton
Ol' Eli, pick a bale a day.
Chorus
Ol' Massa tol' de niggers, etc.
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Me and my gal can pick etc.
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Me and my wife etc.
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Me and my buddy etc.
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Me and my poppa etc.
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Takes a mighty big man to etc.
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