Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town-Charley Pride

[ti:Mississippi Cotton Picking Del] [ar:Charley Pride] [al:RCA Country Legends: Charley P] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.19]In a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [00:05.63]One dusty street to walk up and down [00:08.94] [00:09.63]Nothin' much to see but a starvin' hound [00:13.38]In a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [00:18.75] [00:21.31]Down in the Delta where I was born [00:24.31]All we raised was cotton potatoes and corn [00:28.13]I've picked cotton till my fingers hurt [00:31.94]Draggin' the sack through that Delta dirt [00:39.00]And I've worked hard the whole week long [00:42.69]Pickin' my fingers to the blood and bone [00:47.50]There ain't a lot of money in a cotton bale [00:51.07]At least when you try to sell [00:53.88]In a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [00:57.51] [00:58.26]One dusty street to walk up and down [01:02.07]Nothin' much to see but a starvin' hound [01:05.13] [01:06.26]In a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [01:09.07] [01:13.13]On Saturday nights we'd get dressed up [01:15.63] [01:16.70]Catch us a ride on a pickup truck [01:20.76]On a gravel road it nearly strangled us [01:24.51]That cotton pickin' Delta dust [01:28.51]We'd sit across the street on the depot porch [01:31.13] [01:32.13]Lookin' at the folks lookin' back at us [01:36.57]Munchin' on a dust covered ice cream cone [01:40.51]Wondering how we'd get back home [01:43.13] [01:43.70]From a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [01:48.19]One dusty street to walk up and down [01:52.07]Nothin' much to do but just hang around [01:54.75] [01:55.63]In a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [02:00.13]From a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [02:03.57] [02:04.32]One dusty street to walk up and down [02:07.32] [02:08.38]Nothin' much to do but just hang around [02:12.38]In a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town