Theme for the New Postmodern Economy or Whatever It is:

[Hardrada]

Ya gotta jump down, turn around, pick a bale of cotton,
Jump down, turn around, pick a bale a day!
O lordy, pick a bale of cotton!
O lordy, pick a bale a day!

And show some Enthusiasm!!

Or else they'll find some cotton-pickin' people
Who can jumpdown, turn around, pick two bales a day.

For the same pay.


(Thanks to Leadbelly for the theme)

[Kat45]

1. We used to sing that in class in first grade.

And we'd act it out while singing it. Had no idea what it was about when I was that little. Then when I saw the movie "The Jerk," Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee were singing it at the beginning of the movie and I said, "Whoa!" I often wonder why the teacher chose that song for us, though a friend told me that they also used to sing it when he was little.

[Hardrada]

2. I learned it from a recording, an LP in a set called The Folk Box

back in the early 60's. It always meant a sort of frantic effort to me! (I was in college at the time).