Sharecroppers Son

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We moved here from Summers when I
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 was fourteen
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Worked this poor ground for bacon 
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and beans
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The landlord told me that hard 
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times were near
Didn't mean a thing cause they're 
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already here

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Daylight till dark my work’s never 
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done
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Lord have mercy on a sharecropper’s
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 son

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Momma's got the fever and the 
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baby’s sick too
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Poppa’s uptown soakin’ up that brew
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Just out of prison said he ain’t 
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going back
Ain’t a blood hound in Georgia that 
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can follow his track

Repeat #2

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We bought a new mule brought him up
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 from down south
He'd kick the chew of tobacco right 
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out of your mouth
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Water in the well is barely out of 
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sight
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Can’t take a bath on a Saturday 
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night

Repeat #2

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Our crops are all wilted no rain 
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day or night
The preacher's here for dinner we 
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ain't got a bite
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Eleven in the family ten daughter's
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 and a son
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And momma's just told us there'd be
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 another one