Pickin' Time chords by
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash

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Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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C
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I got cotton in the bottom land
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C
It's up and growin' and
I got a good stand
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Em
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My good wife and them kids of mine
Gonna get new shoes,
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C
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come pickin' time
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Get new shoes come pickin' time
Verse 2
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C
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Ev'ry night when I go to bed
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C
I thank the Lord that my kids are fed
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They live on beans eight days and nine
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C
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But I get 'em fat come pickin' time
Get 'em fat come
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come pickin' time
Verse 3
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The corn is yellow and the beans are high
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C
The sun is hot in the summer sky
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G
The work is hard til layin' by
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Layin' by til pickin' time
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Layin' by til pickin' time
Verse 4
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C
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It's hard to see by the coal-oil light
light
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C
And I turn it off purty early at night
'Cause a jug of coal-oil
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costs costs a dime
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But I stay up late come pickin' time
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Stay up late come pickin' time
Verse 5
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My old wagon barely gets
me to town
I patched the wheels and I
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watered 'em down
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Keep her in shape so she'll be fine
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To haul my cotton come pickin' time
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Haul my cotton come pickin' time
Verse 6
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Last Sunday mornin' when
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they passed the hat
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It was still nearly empty back where I sat
But the preacher smiled
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and said that's fine
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The Lord'll wait til pickin' time
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G
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The Lord'll wait til pickin' time

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