Johnny Cash – I Never Picked Cotton Lyrics  Share

From Johnny Cash's album: Unchained

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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 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
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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

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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

[Chorus]
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