Lonnie Donegan - Pick a Bale of Cotton (video by 41) 

Great dancing beat and lyrics. Makes me want to pick a bale of Cotton all day.

How else could you pass the time and make the best of a situation? 👌

great song and great Lonnie too!

learning something new and interesting! amazing how this people change the world. amen

Biggest problem with this song? ... it kicks ass!

LMAO... my boyfriend once started singing n dancing to this song in the line at wal mart... the looks from the other customers was hilarious... mind you he is a 6' 3" black man in a sea of white folks... priceless... :)

Amazing how catchy the actual tune is.!!

to work like that and make some fun while doing it is totally awesome no wonder people sing that song to this day..

I wish I could share in all the humor and joy people seem t oget from these scenes, but I can't. I just remember the plight both of my parents escaped from back in the 50's. Work all day in the Mississippi sun trying to make a quota of 200 lbs by sunset so you can get paid the whole dollar wages. Back-breaking labor. Perhaps that is what the many happy comments are about. James 2: 1-6

Awesome old song!Thank You!

Good ol Days

love lonnie donegan love this song

❤❤❤❤ pick it boy

Great!!! Long time ago I heard this song :-)

great music-z-

still great in 2019

Great video. Love Lonnie.

I picked plenty all day with my family there was 11 of us kids

My cat loves this song!

the best video ever.

The Jerk? a true classic. 'we gotta keep out the eggplants" "yea don't want any eggplants in the garden, YUCK!"

ABBA and Johnny Cash murdered it. This is MUSIC

Great post!

New NFL National Anthem?

I first heard this song on a Steven Martin movie, love it!

REVELATION 13:10 HE THAT LEADETH INTO CAPTIVITY SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY:HE THAT KILLETH WITH THE SWORD MUST BE KILLED WITH THE SWORD,HERE IS THE PATIENCE AND THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS.....

great Ledbelly tune, I have this version on vinyl 45, & yes Ledbelly did come from a slave background, in America, where workers were treated very badly by plantation owners, this is a part of our shameful heritage that I feel deeply (as a Hippy European) but I still feel the music needs to be played ( Black Betty too) ;-) Love & Light ,

We hire….. 😅

I remember hearing about this song in US history in 8th grade

Had to check this out after reading the Cliven Bundy's views of African-Americans.

Stabiles Lied

am i the only one here for school purposes? Everyone is talking about ksi and I'm just in history learning about slavery.

I'm black... ...and for some reason I feel like being ignorant and saying "SHOUT OUT TO SLAVERY!"

added on my birthday

one of the best l,ve seen n heard yet, thanks

hey norman why do you only post blacks doing this whites were stuck doing it too.

WHAT THE FIRETRUCK

what instruments are used, please

cool man chill lied

all i can say is my the lord bless u know wat wrong and wats right so let hime lead u and if no i hope your soul if right talk like this it not

The democratic party endorses this video

Best tune from The Jerk.

ccezzionale bro🤣

👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍😁

There's a bit of song in the racism

problem? she can date whoever she wants free country remember

haters are harmless.

oppression and drugs! Both influence great music...

I learned this shit in 3rd Grade

@ZockerGame123 wahrscheinlich ist dir der hintergrund dieses liedes nicht bewusst. ;)

Esau,your day is coming

Fact: As much as the catchy of the lyrics are, this song has been depicted to having racial contents in the original Hidden Figures book.

1.5x speed, you're welcome.

This is way better than the original ❤️

I like the song,but I would enjoy more of a robert johnson guitar sound for this.

les paroles ? non ?

@719kai719 Exactly

such a nice song, bad meanings tho.

Back then everyone worked for a days pay..today everyone wants govn't hand outs and bonuses

heritage not hate

some poeple and that yall racemes

@nickiseenpannenkoek Fail translation

kan je een baal katoen pakken???

....i'm going to work, see you soon;

@chonginblunts they shouldnt have been made to pick any bails at all :[]

@TheProudWhite why sorry massar

the democrats anthem

ksi?

hahaha...

I JUST WANNA KNOW...JUMP DOWN FROM WHERE LOL...THE LYNCH OR THE WAGON?

ya'll do realise this is a slavery song?

What. I hope you're joking

EFB 562 ST6 HLD EFB

hahahahaahh no

Lol

not so nice!!! the song is great but the text!!!! OMG and some people just say ''good old days'' bad people!!!!!!! the time is great now!!! bad old days

Who is here from KSI?

Who came from ksi😂

Oof lol this didn't age well haha

Replace "cotton" and "bale" with "usury" and "interest," gonna pay off a loan some day...

Would love to hear this song heavy metal style .

" oh lawdy Oh my lawdy "

black lives really do matter , at least until 1865