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Negroes fishing in creek near cotton plantations outside Belzoni, Miss. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Jonathan Stiles said:

  Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumping The cotton is high Oh your daddys rich Your mamas good looking I said hush little baby Dont you cry One of these mornings Youre bound to rise up singing Then youll spread your wings And take to the sky But til that morning Nothings going to harm you no With daddy and mama standing by Summertime (sweet summertime) And the living is easy (living is easy) Fish are jumping The cotton is high (sky high) Oh your daddys rich (your daddys rich) And your mamas good looking (your mamas good looking) I said hush little baby Dont you cry Dont you cry (dont you cry) Summertime (sweet summertime) Summertime (sweet summertime) Summertime

• /\ \/\/ /\ said:

  Its October according to the info above not summer. The month of October would be a slack time for ag workers in 1939 since the cotton crop would be slowly maturing without the plant steroids we have today. Its also the time of least rainfall. Cotton picking done by hand would start in the next month or so, I believe. The creek could be Wasp Lake which is an ancient Yazoo River channel. Or perhaps Afchafalya Bayou.

• sir_watkyn said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Creative Imagery (Fav 1,Comment on 1), and we'd love to have this added to the group!