Jump Down Songtext
von Harry Belafonte

Gotta jump down, spin around and pick a bale of cotton
Gotta jump down, spin around and pick a bale a day
Gotta jump down, spin around and pick a bale of cotton
Gotta jump down, spin around and pick a bale a day

Gotta jump down, spin around and pick a bale of cotton
Gotta jump down, spin around and pick a bale a day
Gotta jump down, spin around and pick a bale of cotton
Gotta jump down, spin around and pick a bale a day

I saw ′skeeter on my head
Blinked his eye, and I killed him dead

Gotta jump down, spin around and weed a patch o'turnip
Gotta jump down, spin around and weed a patch a day
Gotta weed a patch of turnip
Gotta jump down, spin around and weed a patch of turnip
Gotta jump down, spin around and weed a patch a day

I saw a gal in calico
She tripped and fell, and she didn′t say hello


Gotta jump down, spin around and cook a mess o'greens
Gotta jump down, spin around and cook a pot a day
Gotta jump down, cook a mess o'greens
Gotta jump down, spin around and cook a pot a day
Gotta cook a pot a day
Gotta spin around, spin around, jump down
Gotta jump down, spin around and cook a pot a day
Gotta jump down, spin around and cook a pot a day

I got a pig who′s nice and greasy
All you ladies shake it easy

Gotta jump down, spin around and tote a pail o′ water
Gotta jump down, spin around and tote a pail a day
Gotta jump down, spin around and tote a pail o' water
Gotta jump down, spin around and tote a pail a day

Little Sally jumped down (woo) tote a pail o′ water
Little Joey jumped down (woo) tote a pail a day
Little Sally jumped down, little Joey jumped down
Gotta tote a pail o' water, gotta jump down, woo
Tote a pail o′ water
Gotta jump down, woo-woo, tote a pail a day
Gotta jump down, spin around, tote a pail o' water
Gotta jump down, spin around and tote a pail a day

I don′t know but I've been told
A gopher really don't live in a hole (he don′t)


Gotta jump down, spin around and sweat a pail o′ water
Gotta jump down, spin around and sweat a pail a day
Gotta jump down, spin around and sweat a pail o' water
Gotta jump down, spin around and sweat a pail a day

Won′t pick a pail of cotton (won't tote a pail o′ water)
Won't cook a mess of green (won′t sweat a pail a day)

Won't jump down, spin around, spin around, spin around
Spin around, spin around, spin around
Won't jump down, spin around, sweat of pail o′ water
Won′t jump down, spin around, sweat a pail a day
Won't jump down, spin around, sweat of pail o′ water
Won't jump down, spin around, sweat a pail a day