Johnny Cash - I Never Picked Cotton

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From MARYNICK@MEENA.CC.UREGINA.CA Sun May 4 10:26:55 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:19:10 -0600 (CST)
From: MARYNICK@MEENA.CC.UREGINA.CA
To: guitar@olga.net
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)

E
Chorus I never picked cotton
A E A E
like my mother did and my brother did
A E
and my sister did
A
and my daddy died young
E
in a coal mine

F
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
F#
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
F
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
F#
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

F
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
F#
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
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