Текст песни LeadBelly - Pick A Bale Of Cotton

( Collect a stack of cotton ) - a popular song of cotton pickers , under which it is easier to gather. Leadbelly stated that at about 1917 ( before the first contact with prison ) he did a couple with his wife collected a stack of cotton per day (which is a half thousand pounds , which is almost 700 kg ) . Another well-known performer of this song was James Baker , nicknamed Iron Head, whose Alan Lomax also wrote in Sugarland prison.