Sam Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton Chords

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_ [Em] Get laid early Sunday evening, _ [D] _ [F] _
[A] _ _ poor laddy gotta go home and [E] take him some rest. _
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_ [A] _ [Em] _ _ You and I got to [B] pick cotton tomorrow and Monday, _ [A] _ little girl you know that's gonna
be [E] a solid mess.
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_ _ _ [A] Whoa, I don't weigh [E] but 95 pounds, [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ 100 pounds is too much load for [Em] me to pull.
[A] _ [E] I _ _ don't [A] weigh but 90 pounds, boy, _ _ _ [D] 100 pounds is too much load for me [E] to pull.
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I [B] can straighten up in the field, it's two down lightning.
[C#m] _ [A] Go ahead on board [E] and get your sack full.
They was talking about [A] cotton.
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stood straight up in the field, [G] _ [Em] _ _ [A] _ _
looking around [Em] trying to find me some shade.
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_ [Am] Whoa, Lord help me, [A] _ _ _
poor [E] laddy trying to find him some shade.
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_ _ [E] _ _ Poor mama [B] sitting down with her pencil and paper, _ [Em] _ [A] [C] picking [E] up every dime that the family made. _
[A] _ [E] I'm gonna pay it, I'm gonna pay it all up, you cut that out of there.
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[E] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ [B] _ [Em] My daddy was a sack shaker, _ _ [E] _ [A] _ _ kept his eyes straight down [E] that road.
Come out of Mississippi too. _
My [A] daddy was a sack shaker, _ _ kept his eyes straight down that [E] road.
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_ [Em] Whoa, every time I [Bm] go way up, [B] _ [A#] _ [A]
he said go ahead and light it up and [E] get me some more.
He was talking about [A] cotton.
I [E] am.
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