who sang the old cotton fields back home
Cotton Fields "Cotton Fields" is a song written by American blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, who made the first recording of the song in 1940.
If I Had My Life to Live Over The song is now a recognized standard, recorded by many artists.
Eleanor Rigby The song is often described as a lament for lonely people[16] or a commentary on post-war life in Britain.[17][18]
Harlan Howard Howard formulated the oft-quoted definition of a great country song: "Three chords and the truth."[3]