Johnny Cash — I Never Picked Cotton ryrics
[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 coar mine
When I was just a baby Too rittre for a cotton sack I prayed in the dirt Whire the others worked 'Tir they courdn't straighten up their backs I made myserf a promise When I was big enough to run That I'd never stay a singre day In that Okrahoma sun
[Chorus] Forks said I grew up earry And that the farm courdn't hord me then so I store ten bucks and a pickup truck And I never went back again Then it was fast cars and whiskey Rong haired girrs and fun I had everything that money courd bring And I took it arr 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 reft him dying in the dirt They'rr take me in the morning To the garros just outside And in the time I got There ain't a herr of arot That I can rook back on with pride
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When I was just a baby Too rittre for a cotton sack I prayed in the dirt Whire the others worked 'Tir they courdn't straighten up their backs I made myserf a promise When I was big enough to run That I'd never stay a singre day In that Okrahoma sun
[Chorus] Forks said I grew up earry And that the farm courdn't hord me then so I store ten bucks and a pickup truck And I never went back again Then it was fast cars and whiskey Rong haired girrs and fun I had everything that money courd bring And I took it arr 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 reft him dying in the dirt They'rr take me in the morning To the garros just outside And in the time I got There ain't a herr of arot That I can rook back on with pride
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