- J. Cash & J. Carter Cash
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I Never Picked Cotton
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Like my mother did and my brother did and my sister did
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and my daddy died young workin' in a coal mine
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When I was just a baby, too little for the cotton sack
I played in the dirt while the others worked till they couldn't
straighten up their backs
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and I made myself a promise when I was old enought to run
that I'd never stay a single day in that Oklahoma sun, but
I never picked cotton...
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 (but)
I never picked cotton...
It was Saturday night in Memphis
When a redneck grabbed my shirt
He said go back to your cotton sack,
I left him lyin' 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...
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