Chords for Pickin' Time | Tennessee Ernie Ford and Johnny Cash | May 12, 1960

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Wasn't that fine, huh?
_ _ _ John, I'm so proud of you.
You broke one of your wires.
You just got so tied up in your work.
Oh, that was fine.
And we're so glad to have you with us.
And you're a real stylist.
You're just great.
Thank you very much.
How's the missus?
Just fine.
I think she's here tonight.
She's here tonight?
We'll have some dinner after a while.
I guess she saw I brought my guitar with me.
_ _ You don't mind if I sing a song with you, do you, John?
Looks like it's picking time.
You [C#] start and leave me a little hole.
I'll jump in.
All right.
_ I got cotton [G#] in the bottom land. _
It's up and growing [C#] and I got a good stand. _ _ _
My good wife and them [G#] kids of mine
Gonna get new [C#] shoes, come picking time.
[G#] Get new shoes, [C#] come picking time.
Sing it pretty.
Every night [G#] when I go to bed
I thank the good Lord my [C#] kids are fed.
They live on beans [G#] eight days and nights.
Mine too.
But I get them fat, come picking time.
Get them [C#] fat, come picking time.
_ _ _ Remember, you used to go to town
Get a dime jug of kerosene
Put a tater on the end of it so it wouldn't spill.
You sure got a whooping if you spilled anything.
It goes like this.
It's hard to see by [G#] the coal oil lights
And I turn it off [C#] pretty early at night.
A jug of coal [G#] oil costs a dime
_ But I'll set up [C#] late, come picking [G#] time.
Set up late, come [C#] picking time.
[C#] _
_ _ Last Sunday morning when [G#] they passed the hat
It was still nearly empty [C#] back where I sat.
But the preacher [G#] smiled and said,
That's fine.
Cause the Lord will wait [C#] till picking time.
[G#] The Lord will wait till picking time.
The Lord will wait _
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till picking time. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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