#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Date: Thu, 15 May 97 9:48:54 EDT From: "Douglas K. Smith" <DKSmith@king.edu> Subject: I Never Picked Cotton I Never Picked Cotton recorded by Johnny Cash on UNCHAINED intro: D------------0--------- A--0-(1)-(2)---0------- E----------------3(b)-0 [chorus:] E * I Never Picked Cotton A E A E A E Like my mother did and my brother did and my sister did A E **B7 E and my daddy died young workinF in a coal mine * E---3-3-0--- **A-0-1-2-- E-------- (up to F and play that chord until...) When I was just a baby, too little for the cotton sack I played in the dirt while the others worked till they couldnFt straighten up their backs (up to F#...) and I made myself a promise when I was old enought to run that IFd never stay a single day in that Oklahoma sun, but (...back down to E) [chorus:] Folks said that I grew up early and the farm couldnFt 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 legged girls and fun I had everything that money could bring and I took it all with a gun but [chorus:] It was Saturday night in Memphis when a redneck grabbed my shirt He said go back to your cotton sack, I left him lyinF in the dirt and theyFll take me in the morning to the gallows just outside and in the time I got there ainFt a heck of a lot I can look back on with pride but [chorus:] (also, on the chorus, it sounds good if you strum an Em and hammer on the G string to make an E on the part before you go into the verse)