I Never Picked Cotton (Album Version)-Johnny Cash

[ti:I Never Picked Cotton] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:Unchained] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.18]I Never Picked Cotton – Johnny Cash [00:07.30]I never picked cotton [00:11.30]But my mother did [00:12.62]And my brother did [00:13.87]And my sister did [00:15.30]And my daddy died young [00:18.05]Workin' in the coal mine [00:23.93]When I was just a baby [00:26.49]Too little for a cotton sack [00:29.06]I played in the dirt While the others worked [00:31.81]'Til they couldn't straighten up their backs [00:34.30]I made myself a promise [00:36.87]When I was big enough to run [00:39.56]That I'd never stay a single day [00:42.25]In that Oklahoma sun [00:44.73]I never picked cotton [00:48.49]But my mother did [00:50.05]And my brother did [00:51.30]And my sister did [00:52.62]And my daddy died young [00:55.37]Workin' in the coal mine [01:01.19]Folks said I grew up early [01:03.69]And that the farm couldn't hold me then [01:06.31]So I stole ten bucks and a pickup truck [01:08.94]And I never went back again [01:11.25]Then it was fast cars and whiskey [01:14.31]Long haired girls and fun [01:16.75]I had everything that money could bring [01:19.48]And I took it all with a gun [01:22.10]I never picked cotton [01:25.79]But my mother did [01:27.23]And my brother did [01:28.61]And my sister did [01:30.01]And my daddy died young [01:32.70]Workin' in the coal mine [01:38.14]It was Saturday night in Memphis [01:41.01]When a redneck grabbed my shirt [01:43.59]When he said go back to your cotton sack I left him dying in the dirt [01:48.57]They'll take me in the morning [01:51.26]To the gallos just outside [01:53.87]And in the time I got There ain't a hell of alot [01:56.49]That I can look back on with pride [01:59.12]I never picked cotton [02:02.93]But my mother did [02:04.30]And my brother did [02:05.61]And my sister did [02:06.88]And my daddy died young [02:09.71]Workin' in the coal mine [02:12.91]I never picked cotton [02:16.79]But my mother did [02:18.03]And my brother did [02:19.35]And my sister did [02:20.60]And my daddy died young [02:23.36]Workin' in the coal mine