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From: Asa Daniel <>
Subject: Re: [FOLKLORE-L] Elsie/cotton pickin'
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 01:09:10 -0500

wrote:

> You have made my night. 11:30 pm PDT I haven't heard this one in years
> and had fogotten most of the words, except looking for a home <g>
> I know what a boll Weevil can do to a cotton crop. Remember, I was raised
> in NM and I did pick quite a lot of cotton that dad raised. Boll weevils were
> a
> threatening menace to cotton.
> Thanks Asa, my friend for the words to the song.
> Elsie >>
>
> Hi Elsie,
> Been there, done that with the cotton picking. My daddy raised cotton
> and I picked it.......
> Marsha

Marsha and Elsie

I too know what a boll weevil can do to a crop - but I have a confession........

I only picked cotton once in my life.....now I am not sure how that worked out but
it did..........done everything else but only once did I pick cotton.......

Asa D......Who's mama was the bestest cotton picker in Cass County Texas....

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