Roll Down Dem Bales o' Cotton

DESCRIPTION: "Roll down dem bales o' cotton (x3), I ain't got long to stay here now."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1952 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: work nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 243, "Roll Down Dem Bales o' Cotton" (1 short text)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 243, "Roll Down Dem Bales o' Cotton" (1 tune plus a text excerpt)
NOTES [44 words]: There was a 1914 pop song, "Roll Them Cotton Bales, " words by James Weldon Johnson and Bob Coles, music by J Rosamund Johnson. It doesn't appear to be this, but with this being such a small fragment, it's impossible to say categorically that they are different. - RBW
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