I Never Picked Cotton
Johnny Cash
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I never picked cotton But my mother did And my brother did And my sister did And my daddy died young Workin' in a coal mine When I was just a baby Too little for the cotton sack I played in the dirt While the others worked 'Til they couldn't straighten up their backs And I made myself a promise When I was old enough to run That I'd never stay a single day In that Oklahoma sun And I never picked cotton Like my mother did And my brother did And my sister did And my daddy died young Workin' in a coal mine Folks said that I grew up early And the farm couldn't hold me then So I stole ten bucks and a pickup truck And I never went back again And it was fast cars and whiskey Long legged girls and fun I had everything that money could bring And I took it all with a gun And I never picked cotton Like my mother did And my brother did And my sister did And my daddy died young Workin' in a coal mine It was Saturday night in Memphis When a redneck grabbed my shirt And he said go back to your cotton sack I left him lying in the dirt And they'll take me in the morning To the gallows just outside And in the time I got There ain't a hell of a lot I can look back on with pride But I never picked cotton Like my mother did And my brother did And my sister did And my daddy died young Workin' in a coal mine I never picked cotton Like my mother did And my brother did And my sister did And my daddy died young Workin' in a coal mine
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