One Row At A Time chords by Merle Haggard

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Verse 1
C 
The southeast Georgia red clay
F 
C 
dust is groundin' to my blue jeans
A heavy hundred pound cotton sack
G 
draggin' along behind
C 
Wanting to leave this place so bad,
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C 
I forget how I got here
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C 
Workin' my way back home,
G 
C 
one row at a time

Verse 2
F 
It's a long old cotton road
between here and Waco
Then, three days a- thumbin'
G 
through that California line
C 
F 
And two more days of pickin' to that house,
C 
just south of Fresno
F 
C 
Workin' my way back home,
G 
C 
one row at a time

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Verse 3
C 
F 
Mississippi delta mud is caked in
C 
layers on my brogans
Sunshine on snow white cotton,
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G 
C 
nearly makes me blind
I can almost see 'em now,
F 
C 
a home folk runnin' out to meet me
F 
C 
Workin' my way back home,
G 
C 
one row at a time

Verse 4
F 
It's a long, old cotton road
between here and Waco
Then, three days a- thumbin' through
G 
that California line, Lord, Lord
C 
F 
Two more days of pickin' to that house,
C 
just south of Fresno
F 
C 
Workin' my way back home,
G 
C 
one row at a time
F 
C 
Workin' my way back home,
G 
C 
one row at a time