Cotton Chords by Lightnin Hopkins

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_ [Em] Get laid on this sunny evening
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_ Poor lad ain't gotta go home and take [E] him some rest _ _
_ _ _ Get [A] laid on this sunny evening _
_ _ Poor lad ain't gotta go home [E] and take some rest _
_ [Em] _ _ _ You and I got to [B] pick cotton tomorrow and Monday
_ [A] _ Little girl, you [E] know, that's gonna be a solid mess _
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_ [B] _ _ Whoa, [Em] I don't weigh but 95 pounds
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ 100 pounds is too much load [E] for me to pull
_ _ I _ don't weigh but 90 pounds, boy
[A] _ _ _ 100 pounds is too [E] much load for me to pull
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I can [B] straighten up in the field and stoop down like lightning
_ [A] Go head on boy and [E] get your sack full
They was talking about cotton, I _ _ [Bm] _
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[A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ guess God's king
I [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [B] _ [E] stood straight up in the field
[Em] Looking _ [A] _ _ _ around trying [Em] to find me some shade
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] Whoa, [Am] Lord have mercy
[A] _ _ _ Poor lad ain't trying to find [E] him some shade
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Poor mama [B] sitting down with her pencil and paper
_ [A] Speaking [E] up every time that the family meet _ _ _ _ _
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My _ [Em] daddy was a sack shaker
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_ Came in the high and straight [E] down that road
_ Come out of Mississippi too
My _ [A] daddy was a sack shaker _ _
_ Came in the high and straight down that road
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_ _ [E] _ _ [Em] Whoa, every time I go way up
_ [A] He said go ahead lad and [E] get me some more
He was talking about [A] cotton, I [Em] guess
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