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I Never Picked CottonBack to Song Category List Page Song Lyrics:
I never picked cotton But my mother did, and my brother did, and my sister did And my daddy die young workin' in a coal mine. When I was just a baby too little for the cotton track I played in the dirt while the others worked And they couldn't straighten up their back And I made myself a promise when I was big enough to run That I'd never stay a single day in that Oklahoma sun And ... Folks said that I grew up early, and that the farm couldn't hold me then So I stole ten bucks and a pick up truck and I never went back again Then it was fast cars and whiskey, long haired girls and fun I had ev'rything that money could bring and I took it all with a gun And ... It was Saturday night in Memphis when a redneck grabbed my shirt And he said go back to your cotton sack, I left him dyin' in the dirt And they'll take me in the mornin' to the gallows just outside And in the time I've got there ain't an awful lot that I can look back on with pride And ...
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