Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song I Never Picked Cotton, artist - Johnny Cash. Date of issue: 31.12.1995
Song language: English
I Never Picked Cotton |
| Miscellaneous |
| 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 |