I Never Picked Cotton

intro:  D|------------0---------
        A|--0-(1)-(2)---0------- 
        E|----------------3(b)-0 

[chorus:]
E                *
I Never Picked Cotton
        A      E          A       
Like my mother did and my brother 
E          A      E
did and my sister did
       A          E   **B7       
and my daddy died young workinF 
    E
in a coal mine
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**A-0-1-2--
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(up to F and play that chord 
until...)
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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)