Johnny Cash – I Never Picked Cotton (Ukulele)

#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # From [email protected] Sun May 4 10:26:55 1997 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:19:10 -0600 (CST) From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: crd: "I never picked cotton" by "Johnny Cash" I Never Picked Cotton (written by Charles Williams/Bobby George) -- By Johnny Cash (Unchained album 1996)

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Chorus  I never picked cotton

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like my mother did and my brother did

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and my sister did

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and my daddy died young

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in a coal mine

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1.      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 their backs

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and I made my self a promise

when I was old enough to run that I'd never stay a single day in that Oaklahoma sun And I... Chorus

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2.      Folks said that I grew up early

and the farm couldn't hold me then so I stole ten bucks and a pick up truck and I never went back again

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and it was fast cars and wiskey

long legged girls and fun I had everything that money could bring and I took it all with a gun And I... Chorus

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3.      It was Saturday night in Memphis

when a redneck grabbed my shirt and he said go back to your cotton sack I left him lyin in the dirt

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and they'll take me in the morning

to the gallows just outside and in the time I've got their aint a hell of a lot I can look back on with pride But I... Chorus X2 tabbed by Darren Marynick [email protected]