Cotton Pickin' Time

COTTON PICKIN' TIME
written by Doug Moreland, ASCAP (composer/author and publisher)

Corn-fed, cotton pickin' farmer's boy
Dreamin of the lights and the city noise
Pickin' this guitar every night
Like it's a ticket to a faster life
But it ain't gonna happen today
Row after row I keep baling my pay

It's about cotton pickin' time
It's about cotton pickin' time
I'd lose it all if I left right now
Pa needs the help and I need the dime
It's about cotton pickin' time

I been working like a dog in the summer heat
Trying to make a livin on my own two feet
The hard working dollar's worthless everyday
I work twice as hard for half as much pay
But I been writing songs
Yeah, one may be worth more than this dirty ol farm

It's about cotton pickin' time
It's about cotton pickin' time
I'd lose it all if I left right now
Pa needs the help and I need the dime
It's about cotton pickin' time

Of all I got I ain't got a lot
But all i got is mine
It's about cotton pickin' time