them ole cotton fields back home
The only way I have ever seen a cotton patch is through a car window, but I grew up with stories of children pulling sacks of cotton through the fields in the "good old days. Cotton was once a primary crop here on the Blackland Prairie and we saw a lot of it this weekend as we drove through the countryside.
But what I remember from my childhood even more than the fields are the gins with their distinctive smell that used to be in all the small towns.
Posted by Bill Hopkins on September 8, 2003 10:20 AMComments
Can anyone tell me who had the hit in the 60's of "In them old cotton fields back home." Thanks
Posted by: Bonnie at December 15, 2003 04:00 PMThe song was originally done by the bluesman Leadbelly but it was the Highwaymen who had a hit with it in the early 60's. Later Creedence Clearwater (and probably many others) recorded covers.
