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



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