I Never Picked Cotton-Roy Clark

[ti:I Never Picked Cotton] [ar:Roy Clark] [al:The Best Of Roy Clark] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Never Picked Cotton - Roy Clark [00:05.16]I never picked cotton [00:07.21] [00:10.25]But my mother did and my brother did [00:12.40]And my sister did and my daddy died young [00:15.65] [00:18.18]Workin' in the coal mine [00:19.60] [00:25.78]When I was just a baby too [00:27.98]Little for a cotton sack [00:29.78] [00:30.57]I played in the dirt while [00:31.83]The others worked till [00:33.19]They couldn't straighten their backs [00:34.90] [00:35.59]And I made myself a promise [00:37.85]When I was big enough to run [00:39.77] [00:40.37]That I'd never stay a single day in [00:42.84]That Oklahoma sun [00:45.63]And I never picked cotton [00:47.51] [00:50.65]But my mother did and my brother did [00:53.03]And my sister did and my daddy died young [00:55.43] [00:58.61]Workin' in the coal mine [01:00.01] [01:04.59]Folks said I grew up early [01:06.29] [01:06.91]And in the farm that couldn't hold me then [01:09.33]So I stole ten bucks and a pickup truck [01:11.76]And I never went back again [01:14.25]And it was fast cars and whiskey [01:16.92]Long haired girls and fun [01:18.92] [01:19.59]I had everything that money [01:21.26]Could bring and [01:22.52]Took it all with a gun [01:23.99] [01:24.86]But I never picked cotton [01:26.57] [01:29.80]But my mother did and my brother did [01:32.16]And my sister did and my daddy died young [01:34.90] [01:37.69]Workin' in the coal mine [01:39.48] [01:43.73]It was saturday night in memphis [01:45.77]When a redneck grabbed my shirt [01:48.41]And when he said go back in your cotton sack [01:50.94]I let I'm dyin' in the dirt [01:53.48]They'd take me in the mornin' to the gallows just outside [01:58.43]And in the time I've got [01:59.89]There ain't a hullava lot [02:00.88]That I can look back on with pride [02:03.57]But I never picked cotton [02:05.60] [02:08.75]But my mother did and my brother did [02:11.18]And my sister did and I never died young [02:13.99] [02:16.39]Workin' in the coal mine [02:17.95] [02:21.57]But I never picked cotton [02:23.44] [02:26.53]But my mother did and my brother did [02:28.84]And my sister did and I never died young [02:31.41] [02:33.01]Workin' in the coal mine