Johnny Cash Album: American II: Unchained Track: I Never Picked Cotton
I Never Picked Cotton Lyrics
(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 gallows just outside And in the time I got There ain't a hell of a lot That I can look back on with pride
