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[Chorus:]
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
`Til they couldn`t straighten up their backs
I made myself a promise
When I was big enough to run
That I`d never stay a single day
In that
Oklahoma sun
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Folks said I grew up early
And that the farm couldn`t hold me then so
I stole ten bucks and a pickup truck
And I never went back again
Then 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
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It was Saturday night in Memphis
When a redneck grabbed my shirt
When he said go back to your cotton sack
I left him dying in the dirt
They`ll take me in the morning
To the gallos just outside
And in the time I got
There ain`t a hell of alot
That I can look back on with pride