Jump Down, Spin Around

Words and Music by :  Norman Luboff, Harry Belafonte and William Attaway

Recording #1 by Harry Belafonte
Recording date: Aug 19, 1955 (14:00-18:00)
Master number: F2PB 5801-4
Playing time: 1:58
Producer: Henri Rene
Millard Thomas: guitar; F. Hamilton: drums; The Norman Luboff Choir: (Elizabeth Mulliner: contractor;  Jaqueline Allan, Stewart Bair, Ada Beth-Lee, Ralph Brewster, Mary Dean, Faye Devlin, Robert Hamlin, Jimmie Joyce, Ray Kellogg, Gene Lanham, William Lee, Dorothy McCarthy, Thora Mathiason, Gil Mershon, Betty Noyes, Bernie Parks, Tony Parris, Virginia Rees, William Reeve, Elizabeth Rinker, Charles Schroeder, Maxwell Smith, Robert Stevens, Robert Walker, Betty Wand, Eileen Wilson).

78 : 20-6785,
45 : 47-6785, 75-403, 75-517SPD-24, EPA-694, 7EG8259
LP : LPM1150, AYL1-3860, RCS3235, PJL-27500, VPS-6024, CL42956, CPL1-2489, CAS-2599,
CD: BCD16262, 07863-68097-2, 07863-67403-2, 07863-52469-2, 07863-59771-2, 82876-69242-2 ND89195, CD15094, 07863-53860-2, B93001, BB61089, CD12505, 07863-67403-2, PD89796, 1130-15250-2, 88697-93951-2, RGMCD006


Recording #2 by Harry Belafonte
Recording date: May 2, 1960
Playing time: 2:35
45: VLP-6007,
LP: LSO6007,
Tape: FTO-6002
CD: MFCD-782, LSOCD-6007, RGMCD071


Other records with this song:

45 :  EPA-90993-20214,
LP : TA1015, SM3925, MP666001, BTA12596, 430.213, SRS-585, 32001, CR046, KXL1-7010, STAR-103, 6187331,
CD: CD97032, GOLD-072, 78948, MARC1054, 74321-62230-2, GSS5336,

Also recorded by:
DeCormier Singers RS897SD
The Phoenix Singers Warner W1485
New Christy Minstrels CS8672, CCM347-2, CCM042-2,
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee 99756  
The Spotnicks ILPS-101  

Lyrics:

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 o' turnip
Gotta jump down, spin around and weed a patch o'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 cook a mess o'greens
Gotta jump down, spin around and cook a mess o'greens
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 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

I don't know but I've been told,
A gopher really don't live in a hole
Gotta jump down, spin around and sweat a pail o' water,
Gotta jump down, spin around and sweat a pail a day
Gotta 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