You know "Oh, Lordy! Pick a bale of cotton," right? Cecily Walker February 13, Haha! I was just thinking of a song my sis and I sang as kids. Random memory: my elementary school music teacher thought nothing of having us sing "Pick A Bale of Cotton" #throwbackthursday when mrs drinnon would make everyone sing pick a bale of cotton every morning before class started. Several twitter users have childhood memories of this song as well. One website dedicated to children’s songs has the following Sing another version of “Pick a Bale of Cotton” in class and school Someone would want to take such a song and convert it to being aboutĮating cherries is beyond me. One of the verses according to American Ballads and Folk Songs, goes like this: The lyrics to this song contain the N-word “Pick a Bale of Cotton” an old work song, is like calling a slave On award- winning Putumayo Kids compilation Picnic Playground andīeing played daily on Sirius/XM Kids Radio.” Random moment of silliness on stage I sang about cherries…….and now it's Reason to sing about working in the fields as a slave, so one day in a There is an old work song that singsĪbout picking cotton and it has the catchiest hook ever. Universal appeal of the title track "Bowl of Cherries" is really myĬatalyst for the whole project. Of Cherries" was adapted by Norman Jones and on his website he writes: Song has the same melody as “Pick a Bale of Cotton.” The cover, "Bowl Bowl of Cherries/Pick a Bale of Cottonįirst heard “Bowl of Cherries” in a children’s indoor play area. Although the judge acknowledged that they rhyme had racist origins the jury decided in favor of Southwest Airlines.Ģ. They unsuccessfully sued Southwest airlines when a flight attendant recited the rhyme in an attempt to get them to find a seat. The N-word is used in place of “tiger.” Yet, two sisters on a Southwestįlight however did have knowledge of the version with the N-word. Up I never knew that there was a racist version of the rhyme in which The lyrics printed in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymesare as such: Rhyme, but I imagine they said it as we did:Īccording to The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (pages 184-187) this rhyme may have derived from the following rhyme that was recited by children in New York as early as 1815Īre versions of this rhyme in French and German but the AmericanĮnglish version of this rhyme was found in “colloquial use in almostĮvery State of the Union” in 1888. They recited in the same context that I did as child, as we choose who Overheard them reciting the popular rhyme: Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe. School aged children on a field trip ran over to the playground and I The melody itself doesn’t change it’s still based on “Ah vous dirais-je, Maman,” a French folk song with ties to 18th century composer Lemaire and interpretations by Mozart, that is also the backbone of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” and “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.” It’s just the groupings of letters that shifts.The other day I took my girls to the park. So how exactly is it different, you ask? Instead of running through the “L, M, N, O, P” speedily, this remix suggests continuing after “K” with the same spoken tempo, and then drawing breath before restarting the chanting of the letters at “O.” That means that now “O, P, Q, R, S, T” and “U” go together, “V” sort of stands alone, and “W, X, Y” and “Z” are partnered up for the final stretch. But thanks to a now-viral tweet calling out the adjusted recitation tempo, there’s new attention being paid to the version. The remix comes to us from a company called Dream English Kids a YouTube video featuring the adjusted tune has been up on that platform for over eight years, with nearly 10 million views.
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