Cash Johnny - I Never Picked Cotton guitar tab

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From MARYNICK@MEENA.CC.UREGINA.CA Sun May 4 10:26:55 1997

I Never Picked Cotton (written by Charles Williams/Bobby George)

-- By Johnny Cash (Unchained album 1996)

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Chorus I never picked cotton

A E A E

like my mother did and my brother did

A E

and my sister did

A

and my daddy died young

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in a coal mine

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1. When I was just a baby

too little for the cotton sack

I played in the dirt while the others worked

til they couldn't straighten their backs

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and I made my self a promise

when I was old enough to run

that I'd never stay a single day

in that Oaklahoma sun

And I...

Chorus

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2. Folks said that I grew up early

and the farm couldn't hold me then

so I stole ten bucks and a pick up truck

and I never went back again

F#

and it was fast cars and wiskey

long legged girls and fun

I had everything that money could bring

and I took it all with a gun

And I...

Chorus

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3. It was Saturday night in Memphis

when a redneck grabbed my shirt

and he said go back to your cotton sack

I left him lyin in the dirt

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and they'll take me in the morning

to the gallows just outside

and in the time I've got their aint a hell of a lot

I can look back on with pride

But I...

Chorus X2

tabbed by Darren Marynick

marynick@meena.uregina.ca