Johnny Cash I Never Picked Cotton Lyrics

I Never Picked Cotton Lyrics




[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



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