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[Verse 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
And I made my self a promise, when I was old enough to run
That I'd never stay, a single day, in that Oklahoma sun
[Chorus]
And I never picked cotton
Like my mother did and my brother did
And my sister did and my daddy died young
Working in a coal mine
[Verse 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
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
[Chorus]
And I never picked cotton
Like my mother did and my brother did
And my sister did and my daddy died young
Working in a coal mine
[Verse 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
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