One Row At A Time
By Merle Haggard
Written by Hollis De Laughter & Dottie West
Album: Someday We'll Look Back (1971)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
5/14/2016
Capo 1
C F C
The southeast Georgia red clay dust is groundin' to my blue jeans
C G
A heavy hundred pound cotton sack draggin' along behind
C F C
Wanting to leave this place so bad, I forget how I got here
C F C G C
Workin' my way back home, one row at a time
Chorus:
F
It's a long old cotton road between here and Waco
F G
Then, three days a-thumbin' through that California line
C F C
And two more days of pickin' to that house, just south of Fresno
C F C G C
Workin' my way back home, one row at a time
Mississippi delta mud is caked in layers on my brogans
Sunshine on snow white cotton, nearly makes me blind
I can almost see 'em now, a home folk runnin' out to meet me
Workin' my way back home, one row at a time
Chorus
Workin' my way back home, one row at a time
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