Lyrics I Never Picked Cotton - Johnny Cash

I Never Picked Cotton

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I Never Picked Cotton
(Chorus) 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 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
(Chorus) 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