[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch
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We all picked cotton but we never got rich
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Daddy was a veteran, a Southern Democrat he said
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They oughta get the rich men to vote like that
[Chorus]
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Singing song, song of the south
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Sweet potato pie and I hush my mouth
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Gone, gone with the wind
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There ain't nobody looking back again
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When I was eighteen 'for I ate my fill
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We lived on the garden and the cow’s good will.
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Winter was wet and Summer were dry and
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Momma she was old at thirty-five.
[Chorus]
D A
song, song of the south
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Sweet potato pie and I hush my mouth
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Gone, gone with the wind
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There ain't nobody looking back again
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Well somebody told us that Wall Street had fell
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so damned poor that we couldn't even tell
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Cotton was short and the weeds was tall
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Mr. Roosevelt was gonna save us all
[Chorus]
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song, song of the south
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Sweet potato pie and I hush my mouth
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Gone, gone with the wind
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There ain't nobody looking back again
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Well momma got sick and daddy got down
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The county took the farm and we moved to town
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Daddy got a job with the TVA
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We bought a washing machine and then a new Chevrolet
[Chorus]
D A
Singing song, song of the south
G A D
Sweet potato pie and I hush my mouth
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Gone, gone with the wind
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There ain't nobody looking back again
