I Never Picked Cotton - Johnny Cash

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I Never Picked Cotton

(Chorus) I never picked cotton But my mother did And my brother did And my

sister did And my daddy died young Workin' in the coal mine

When I was just a baby Too little for a cotton sack I played in the dirt While

the others worked 'Til they couldn’t straighten up their backs I made myself a

promise When I was big enough to run That I’d never stay a single day In that

Oklahoma sun

(Chorus) Folks said I grew up early And that the farm couldn’t hold me then so

I stole ten bucks and a pickup truck And I never went back again Then it was

fast cars and whiskey Long haired girls and fun I had everything that money

could bring And I took it all with a gun

(Chorus) It was Saturday night in Memphis When a redneck grabbed my shirt When

he said go back to your cotton sack I left him dying in the dirt They’ll take

me in the morning To the gallos just outside And in the time I got There ain’t

a hell of alot That I can look back on with pride