Talk:Cotton Fields

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message: The article mostly addresses the various cover versions. While understandable, is there any more information about the original song?
In particular, when did Lead Belly originally record his version? MCSmarties (talk) 02:01, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Original Year?

message: AFAIK, a cover version is a REDO of an original. So with all respect to the Beach Boys' version - and I do love it! - , but how can versions that came out AFORE it be cover versions of it? Shouldn't the correct description be Huddie Ledbetter's song the original and all the others, including the Beach Boys' version, be called cover versions? - Yog-S, 149.225.72.87 (talk) 05:24, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Cover versions" ? 

message: RE: Section in Article - Lyrics
There are two lines in the song:
"....It was down in Louisiana,
Just about a mile from Texarkana,...."
There are only two Texarkana's (municipalities)(??)- both on the Texas/Arkansas border. Both are at least 20 miles from the Louisana border. If Texarkana is derived from TEX(as)-ARK(ansas)-(Louisi)ANA, then this portmanteau belongs on the tri-state border vertice. (A Monument is located next to a tree at 33-01'-09"N 94-02'-35"W near where  TX highway 77 changes to LA highway 1 ). So maybe Texarkana in the lyrics could refer to this point - but not likely.
Assuming Louisiana has five syllables and Texarkana has four, then the first line has 9 syllables (seven whole and two half notes) and the second has ten (six whole notes and four half notes). However giving a more exact distance would probably complicate the lyric structure (even more).
Pity.
Tourists familiar with the song might like to visit such a field but would arrive at Texarkana and find any field close by (for pics) and not bother to see Northern La.. Or they might visit Northern La. searching for a site only to spend overnight in Texarkana Tx. or Ark.?
Other than a geography lesson it makes no difference at all, of course. Just in case, though, maybe a Parish in La. might like to change the name of one of their small municpalities nearby to increase tourism.... and/or sing the second line "...at least a mile from Texarkana..." - with the more proper nine syllables. 
"Cotton Fields" by CCR is still popular in Classic county and pop music genres.
Pete318 (talk) 17:50, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lyrics/ Musical Construction 

message: Does this song reference slavery? Who exactly is pickin' all that cotton in the lyrics? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.41.128.119 (talk • contribs) 
* As far as I can tell the song has nothing to do with slavery; but the Czech band ':cs:Greenhorns' has performed a version with slavery-related lyrics (about the suffering of slaves working the cotton fields), perhaps inspired by English "cotton" sounding similar to Czech "katům" (meaning "to executioners" / "to torturers"). - Mike Rosoft (talk) 14:13, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racist?