My father remembers helping his mother pick cotton. His parents were share croppers. They were all white if that matters. I don't think it made much of a difference to the cotton.
My mom (born in 1921) used to sing it to me, also, in the 60s. She grew up in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. My dad (born in 1923) was from Red River Parish. He was able to attend college for two years in Natchitoches, but then had to quit because his family needed him at home to help pick cotton. They were sharecroppers.
I’m just picturing this being sung by a bunch of hobos and sharecroppers around a fire who can’t stick it to the man but can share that pain and even the few joys they had.
pienso lo mismo. un grupo de gringos vagabundos. con poco dinero junto a una fogata a orillas de la via del ferrocarril tomando cafe y aguardiente. pero felices.
Bob Dylan says in his Nobel prize lecture that when he was 18, and right after Buddy Holly died (who was his role model), someone gave him this record. He said, "It changed my life right there and then, transported me into a world I had never known, it was as if an explosion went off. Like I had been walking in darkness and all of a sudden it had been illuminated. As if someone had laid hands on me. I must have played that record a hundred times."
Wondering at what point in his career did Bob Dylan give over to worshiping the dark side as he fully admitted in an interview. Imo his best songs were in the earliest days.
@@SlickArmorMaybe you have to compare it to what was/wasn't happening in music at that time. I don't know either, and don't really get Dylan either though I keep trying to learn. 😊
truly. when you consider before this most people listened to classical orchestra, opera, and marching tunes you could basically say every pop song is blues rock.
Lead Belly sings about a cash crop. A cash crop that became so profitable with the coming of the Industrial Revolution that Southern Planters could see no limit to the amount of raw cotton bolls they could sell. The steam-powered motor that turned the cotton gin, mechanized the Spinning Jenny, and weaved the power loom lowered the cost of weaving cotton fabric. The first time in human history when the fabric for making clothes was accessible even for the poor. In addition, the Industrial Revolution made freight transportation effective. The transportation brought the ginned cotton bolls from the cotton fields of Louisiana and Mississippi to the weaving factories and from the factories to the world market. You can hear about the people and events that shaped America and modern world in Lead Belly's lyrics. Oh, my God.
[Verse 1] 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 [Chorus] Oh, when them cotton balls 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 [Verse 2] 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 cotton fields at home [Chorus] Oh, when them cotton balls 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 cotton fields at home [Verse 3] 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 [Chorus] Oh, when those cotton balls 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 cotton fields at home Oh, when those cotton balls get rotten You can't pick very much cotton In them old, old cotton fields at home It was down in Louisiana Just a mile from Texarkana In them old, old cotton fields at home
"Just ten miles from Texarkana." I paid Lead Belly a visit down in Mooringsport this last fall and had a smile about CCR's little error in that there's nowhere in Louisiana that's just a mile from Texarkana. Doesn't harm a great song otherwise!
@@samautio6065 country music is just a white washed version of this music. leadbelly didn't write any of these songs. these are old black american songs written in the 1800s
@@jamescaleb9676 Leadbelly covered songs, he wrote songs too. If not for him many of the covers that he popularized would not be well known, or even in the public domain.
Just an FYI for those not familiar with this part of the country-- if you are anywhere in Louisiana the very closest you can be to Texarkana is about 30 miles.
The cotton fields are close to where I'm sitting now in Texas. I never picked cotton, but both sides of my family did. A few miles from here, one town has a Cotton Festival every October.
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"When I was a little baby My mother would rock me in the cradle In them old, old cotton fields at home" 2:22 Huddie William Ledbetter, better known by the stage name Lead Belly.
In 1969 this was the jam. The Beach Boys did it on their album “20/20” In 1969 and Creedence Clearwater Revival album “Willy And the poor boys” in 1969 THIS SONG WAS THE JAM
"I think it was a day or two after that that his plane went down. And somebody - somebody I’d never seen before - handed me a Leadbelly record with the song “Cottonfields” on it. And that record changed my life right then and there. Transported me into a world I’d never known. It was like an explosion went off. Like I’d been walking in darkness and all of the sudden the darkness was illuminated. It was like somebody laid hands on me. I must have played that record a hundred times." - Bob Dylan
I feel like the black man had it better then any white or black man now (believe I know shit was bad for "colored" people back then), I dont believe in racism now as I live in the south and have never seen it in person, I understand that it does happen on both sides but I feel like its mostly media.... but as I was saying back then the blues meant something. I can hear it in his voice. we should all be ashamed of the music put out today. there is no since of pride in any of it. lead belly was a true hall of famer for any genre.
It's pretty much the whole truth, most people are too used to the ease of society and don't understand what insufferable hard work or anything else of the sort of hardships that they had back in the day. If Lead Belly had lived today he'd find a way to build a Time Machine and go back to his hard times. Modern day is not that good for us, I know first hand how Lazy I am. And I literally hate slouching and laziness, but there's no need to work hard anymore, you don't get your reward for your hard work anymore, everyone is paid by the amount of time wasted on the job, not on how good you performed. Never heard my boss say, You can go home now, you've worked hard enough today, or here take this as a small token of appreciation for your hard work. There is nothing of the sort today, it's all so robotic and lifeless.
Today's music for the most part is akin to battery chickens, lots of it but little flavour. If you want to hear a good Irish song, listen to Tolu McKay, one of our new Irish, sing The N17. It's a song of emigration and her version would bring a tear from a glass eye.
U can hear how jaunty and fun this song is, but ccr captured a more somber and poignant tone when they covered this song. Huddle was a masterful performer
My mom sang this to us when we were kids growing up in the 60s. She was from Texarkana. RIP, Mom.
I was born in Texarkana in 1962, my peoples worked the cotton fields of Mandeville, 7 miles down old 67.
My father remembers helping his mother pick cotton.
His parents were share croppers.
They were all white if that matters.
I don't think it made much of a difference to the cotton.
my mom used to dance to the ccr version. RIP Mom
My mom (born in 1921) used to sing it to me, also, in the 60s. She grew up in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. My dad (born in 1923) was from Red River Parish. He was able to attend college for two years in Natchitoches, but then had to quit because his family needed him at home to help pick cotton. They were sharecroppers.
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I’m just picturing this being sung by a bunch of hobos and sharecroppers around a fire who can’t stick it to the man but can share that pain and even the few joys they had.
pienso lo mismo. un grupo de gringos vagabundos. con poco dinero junto a una fogata a orillas de la via del ferrocarril tomando cafe y aguardiente. pero felices.
Bob Dylan says in his Nobel prize lecture that when he was 18, and right after Buddy Holly died (who was his role model), someone gave him this record. He said, "It changed my life right there and then, transported me into a world I had never known, it was as if an explosion went off. Like I had been walking in darkness and all of a sudden it had been illuminated. As if someone had laid hands on me. I must have played that record a hundred times."
Beatles also said there would be no Beatles without Huddie
I just heard the same quote and searched out this song. Frankly I'm not hearing it but then again I'm not bob Dylan.
Bob visited Woody Guthrie in his later days. The way he sings is a tribute to Woody who's speech was labored do to Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Wondering at what point in his career did Bob Dylan give over to worshiping the dark side as he fully admitted in an interview.
Imo his best songs were in the earliest days.
@@SlickArmorMaybe you have to compare it to what was/wasn't happening in music at that time. I don't know either, and don't really get Dylan either though I keep trying to learn. 😊
This song makes me feel nostalgic for my childhood in Louisiana even though I'm from Italy lol
Wonderful. What is America without Leadbelly
We would not even have as much awesome music in this world if it weren't for the legendary talent from this man and many more from his time!
Ya, you wonder where all those white musicians got their inspiration! CCR paying him for this cover song??
The greatest blues singer and its saddest eyes.
its not blues
Pasó muchos años preso y alli lo visitaron para grabarlo en sus creaciones......por eso sus ojos......
Not to mention he was also a murderer..
...@@ShrubJayMusic...eres racista verdad....!!!!!!????
What a fantastic early Blues song. Thank you, Lead Belly,.
I first sang this song on my bus going to high school. It was before CCR since I’m now 81. I had no idea it was Lead Belly until today. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
How could anyone dislike this song? Amazing! 😀😀😀
People these days don't appreciate music like this.
They find it funny and "cringe"
Lead Belly originally did Cotton Fields years before it was a hit song in early 1963 on mainstream AM radio stations.
this song is incredibly sorrowful in its beauty
My dad used to sing this song to me. Didn't know the name, or that Lead Belly recorded it.
I always come back here to listen to this very good song
a big hug from Brazil
Eu sempre estou escutando leadbelly😁
Leadbilly wrote this song in 1940, and Creedence made it known all over the world! Greetings from Asuncion, Paraguay!
He is so good… blues meets folk
And so influential- thank you Hugh leadbetter.
That's cool that you said blues meets folk. I'm thinking that Bob Dylan had to be a fan of Leady Belly. :)
Legend.
This is where rock n roll originated. If it wasnt for the blues . then there wouldnt be music
truly. when you consider before this most people listened to classical orchestra, opera, and marching tunes you could basically say every pop song is blues rock.
And Gospel
The original and the best!
Amazing music. So good and real, right from the heart. ❤ He was a talented musician.
Lead Belly sings about a cash crop. A cash crop that became so profitable with the coming of the Industrial Revolution that Southern Planters could see no limit to the amount of raw cotton bolls they could sell. The steam-powered motor that turned the cotton gin, mechanized the Spinning Jenny, and weaved the power loom lowered the cost of weaving cotton fabric. The first time in human history when the fabric for making clothes was accessible even for the poor. In addition, the Industrial Revolution made freight transportation effective. The transportation brought the ginned cotton bolls from the cotton fields of Louisiana and Mississippi to the weaving factories and from the factories to the world market. You can hear about the people and events that shaped America and modern world in Lead Belly's lyrics. Oh, my God.
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
Oh, when them cotton balls 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
[Verse 2]
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 cotton fields at home
[Chorus]
Oh, when them cotton balls 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 cotton fields at home
[Verse 3]
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
[Chorus]
Oh, when those cotton balls 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 cotton fields at home
Oh, when those cotton balls get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old, old cotton fields at home
It was down in Louisiana
Just a mile from Texarkana
In them old, old cotton fields at home
Probably bolls rather than balls.
Thank you!
"Just ten miles from Texarkana." I paid Lead Belly a visit down in Mooringsport this last fall and had a smile about CCR's little error in that there's nowhere in Louisiana that's just a mile from Texarkana. Doesn't harm a great song otherwise!
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omg its great
I'm here because this song in Mexico is known as 'cuando era jovencito' by Ramon Ayala
I'm glad I heard the similarities and found the original sound
its not ramon ayala's , he covered it tho. Los Apsons did itin the 60s
A historical song by a Blues legend ! 😁👍
Leadbelly was a true innovator, a great song covered by many country artists.
@@samautio6065 country music is just a white washed version of this music. leadbelly didn't write any of these songs. these are old black american songs written in the 1800s
@@jamescaleb9676 Leadbelly covered songs, he wrote songs too. If not for him many of the covers that he popularized would not be well known, or even in the public domain.
@@samautio6065 he was a great artist, and his versions are the standards, but he was never the only one singing these songs.
some of the greatest FOLK MUSIC ever!!
Just an FYI for those not familiar with this part of the country-- if you are anywhere in Louisiana the very closest you can be to Texarkana is about 30 miles.
Ha ha. Poetic license!
@@727jk about 30 miles from texarkana wouldnt fit into the beat line
Exactly!
I came here to say this…..🤣
I grew up in a small farm town in north LA and this reminds me of home all the time
Un grande LEAD BELLY
Una muy bonita canción
My greatest Bluesman ever a real legend and he did made awesome Blues super to hear it.
I am so pleased to hear the original after so many years. I used to listen to a later version of the song on the radio when I was a kid.
What a legend
I knew colter was cool when he made this reference, felt like a nod to the folks that still play the classics
Legendary
Back in late teens... a friend used to sing this while holding a bottle of beer. Good times, although wasted in many ways, as the young very often do.
Brilliant.
There would be no Beatles without this man... ❤❤
Wow !
The cotton fields are close to where I'm sitting now in Texas. I never picked cotton, but both sides of my family did. A few miles from here, one town has a Cotton Festival every October.
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Our brand is all about catering to the urban middle-class young people between 16 and 28 years of age who are conscious of their style, comfort, and the environment.
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"When I was a little baby My mother would rock me in the cradle In them old, old cotton fields at home" 2:22
Huddie William Ledbetter, better known by the stage name Lead Belly.
Ledbetter was the best male blue singer that ever lived. My granddaughter is named just like the song by Ledbetter
The is "Bring a little water Sylve".
Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate in Literature, mentions this song in his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.
Thanks, Bob!
A J E W
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This song in Spanish is called "Cuando apenas erá un jovencito". And it was sanged by a mexican band called Los Apson
In 1969 this was the jam. The Beach Boys did it on their album “20/20” In 1969 and Creedence Clearwater Revival album “Willy And the poor boys” in 1969 THIS SONG WAS THE JAM
Plus Charley Pride did a rendition of it.
Lead Belly es un peso pesado.
Preciosa canción ;)
True southern Liddy biddy beby. Texacana loosanna
Yep, I think this is the only version that pronounces Texacana properly, at least the way my great Grandma did.
My favorite music - 👴🏻
good
These song is international. We have it in Spanish too. In Spanish is not about cotton fields is about finding a good woman but is the same beat tone
"I think it was a day or two after that that his plane went down. And somebody - somebody I’d never seen before - handed me a Leadbelly record with the song “Cottonfields” on it. And that record changed my life right then and there. Transported me into a world I’d never known. It was like an explosion went off. Like I’d been walking in darkness and all of the sudden the darkness was illuminated. It was like somebody laid hands on me. I must have played that record a hundred times." - Bob Dylan
Uau ❤️❤️❤️
When/What Year Was This Recorded?
1940
@@historyobsessionistU/You Mean The Year That "Bedknobs &/And Broomsticks" Depicts?.
@@user-we3ow3io6m Never watched a movie because I'm too busy but I guess you're right
Key Of A - (Standard Tuning)
Chorus
l-IV-l-V
I-IV-l-V/l
Verse
IV-l-V
I-IV-I-V/l
l-IV-l-V
I-IV-l-V/l
Like 300!!!
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Just found out Ramon Ayala's cuando era un jonvencito was inspired by this song
Fogerty curentena abril veinte veinte
Khe verga? Jajaja xd
@@johnson-nh4sn the sims
My bossman used to make us sing this song he did.
Bob Dylan sent me here
Me too!
Me three!
And me
CCR sent me here. 👍
@@swan2249 just a guy that wrote a few songs in the 60’s. No big deal.
CREEDENCE´S BEST COVER.
Los apson- cuando era un jovencito
Good cover too
He wanted
Yes according to DeSantis these are valuable skills that the slaves learned. Hopefully we know better nowadays if we are woke.
It is a great song however
In the USA you of 350 million it is unfogivable and an utter shame iit only has the views it has...what are Americans doing over there?
This is where skynard originated from good Ole southern rock [>
I feel like the black man had it better then any white or black man now (believe I know shit was bad for "colored" people back then), I dont believe in racism now as I live in the south and have never seen it in person, I understand that it does happen on both sides but I feel like its mostly media.... but as I was saying back then the blues meant something. I can hear it in his voice. we should all be ashamed of the music put out today. there is no since of pride in any of it. lead belly was a true hall of famer for any genre.
in short what im saying is we are all fucked now, no matter what color you are nobody is free
It's pretty much the whole truth, most people are too used to the ease of society and don't understand what insufferable hard work or anything else of the sort of hardships that they had back in the day. If Lead Belly had lived today he'd find a way to build a Time Machine and go back to his hard times. Modern day is not that good for us, I know first hand how Lazy I am. And I literally hate slouching and laziness, but there's no need to work hard anymore, you don't get your reward for your hard work anymore, everyone is paid by the amount of time wasted on the job, not on how good you performed. Never heard my boss say, You can go home now, you've worked hard enough today, or here take this as a small token of appreciation for your hard work. There is nothing of the sort today, it's all so robotic and lifeless.
Today's music for the most part is akin to battery chickens, lots of it but little flavour. If you want to hear a good Irish song, listen to Tolu McKay, one of our new Irish, sing The N17. It's a song of emigration and her version would bring a tear from a glass eye.
Maybe a Trump natl anthem when he brings back Jim Crow...SAD
U can hear how jaunty and fun this song is, but ccr captured a more somber and poignant tone when they covered this song. Huddle was a masterful performer
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