Chords for Cotton Eyed Joe Walter Brennan

_ _ _ [C] Don't you remember, don't you know, Daddy worked a man they called Cotton-Eyed Joe?
Had it not a-been for Cotton [G]-Eyed Joe, there'd be a lot of things I [C] wouldn't know. _ _
Yeah, everybody called him Cotton-Eyed Joe.
Nobody know where he got that name.
He'd been around since [F] a long time ago.
[C] Nobody know where he came. _
_ He worked a long time on my daddy's farm, for three square meals and a place to stay.
He took a liking to me the night I was [G] born, because he didn't have to work the next day.
[C] _ _ _ I used to ride in his cotton sack.
It must have been twenty foot long.
Every time Cotton-Eyed Joe looked [G] back, I'd be tagging along.
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Catching a catfish or shooting a squirrel, that old fella showed me how.
_ Guess I was about the luckiest boy in the [G] world.
I wish I was back there now.
[C] _ _
_ Don't you remember, don't you know, Daddy worked a man they called Cotton-Eyed Joe?
Had it not a-been for Cotton-Eyed Joe, there'd be a lot of things I wouldn't know.
_ _ Cotton-Eyed Joe said, it looks like rain.
We better be heading for home.
We no more than got there, and down it [F] came.
[C] Cotton-Eyed Joe was never wrong. _ _ _
His rain's gonna make the cotton grow, but then the weeds will come.
_ You ain't too good to swing [F] a hoe, just cause [C] you're the boss's son. _ _ _
_ The sun was hot in the summer skies, chopping the cotton one day.
Cotton-Eyed Joe, please open your eyes.
That's when I learned to pray.
_ _ _ _ Don't you remember, don't you know, Daddy worked a man they called Cotton-Eyed Joe?
Had it not a-been for Cotton [G]-Eyed Joe, there'd be a lot of things I [C] wouldn't know. _ _ _
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