Pick a Bale of Cotton (Fw LP 31030)

Name: Pick a Bale of Cotton
Duration: 1 min 27 s

~ Recording by Lead Belly

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.8	Pick a Bale of Cotton	1:27	Lead Belly	Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order: Volume 7, 1947–1949	Lead Belly	Album + Compilation	AT1999	Document Records (AT / UK)	DOCD-5640

recorded in:	New York, New York, United States (from 1948-09 until 1948-10)

guitar:	Lead Belly (from 1948-09 until 1948-10) Brownie McGhee (from 1948-09 until 1948-10)
harmonica:	Sonny Terry (from 1948-09 until 1948-10)
vocals:	Lead Belly (from 1948-09 until 1948-10)

recording of:	Pick a Bale of Cotton (from 1948-09 until 1948-10)

writer:	[traditional] (special purpose artist)

publisher:	Union Songs AB (publisher)

later parody versions:	Jump Down, Spin Around (Pick a Dress o’ Cotton)
lyrics quoted in:	Gossip Folks