I Never Picked Cotton letra

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
Till they couldn't straight enough their backs
And I made myself a promise when I was big enough to run
That I'd never stay a single day in that Oklahoma sun

And 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

Folks said I grew up early in the farm that couldn't hold me then
So I stole ten bucks and a pickup truck and I never went back again
And 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

But I never picked cotton...

It was Saturday night in Memphis when a redneck grabbed my shirt
And when he said go back in your cotton sack I let 'im dyin' in the dirt
They'd take me in the mornin' to the gallows just outside
And in the time I've got there ain't a hullava lot that I can look back on with pride

But I never picked cotton...
But I never picked cotton...

Roy Clark - Letras

• All The Way
• April's Fool
• Ballad Of Jed Clampett
• But I Was Lying
• CAROLYN
• Come Live With Me
• Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
• Daisy a Day
• Darby's Castle
• Days Of Sand And Shovels
• Dozen Pairs Of Boots
• Faded Love
• For Once In My Life
• For The Life Of Me
• Front Of The Bus Back Of The Church (the Middle Of The Road)
• Happy To Be Unhappy
• He'll Have To Go
• Hee Haw Theme
• Hello Old Broken Heart
• Honeymoon Feeling
• How Would I
• I Ain't Got Nobody
• I Need To Be Needed
• I Never Picked Cotton
• I'll Paint You a Song
• I'll Take The Time
• If I Had to Do It All Over Again
• If That's The Fashion
• In a Million Years Or So
• Is Anybody Going To San Antone
• It's My Way
• January April And Me
• Jesse James
• Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'
• Last Letter
• Let Me Talk To You
• Lonesome Too Long
• Lonesomest Lonesome
• Love Is Just a State Of Mind
• Love Like This
• ME AND BOBBY McGEE
• Morning Side Of The Mountain
• My Baby's Gone
• Nobody Wins
• Odds And Ends (bits And Pieces)
• Ode To a Critter
• Right or Left at Oak Street
• Sally Was a Good Ole Girl
• September Song
• She Cries For Me
• She's All I Got
• Silent Pictures
• Silver Threads And Golden Needles
• Simple Thing As Love
• Since December
• Soft Rain
• Somewhere Between Love And Tomorrow
• Soul Song
• Strangers
• Take Me As I Am (or Let Me Go)
• Thank God and Greyhound
• The Unclouded Day
• Then She's a Lover
• Things I Might Have Been
• Through The Eyes Of a Fool
• Tip of My Fingers
• Tip Of My Fingers 2
• Today
• Unchained Melody
• We Could
• When Have You Been All Of My Life
• When The Wind Blows In Chicago
• Why Me
• Yesterday When I Was Young
• You Don't Have Very Far To Go
• You Took Her Off My Hands
• Youre Gonna Love Yourself