In A Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town
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In A Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town
Recorded by Charley Pride
written by Harold Dorman, Wiley Gann

C                               G7
In a Mississippi cotton picking Delta town 
                    C
One dusty street to walk up and down
                          F
Nothing much to see but a starving hound 
     G7                               C
In a Mississippi cotton picking Delta town

                          G7
Down in the Delta where I was born 
                             C
All we raised was cotton potatoes and corn
                           F
I've picked cotton till my fingers hurt 
G7                                   C
Dragging the sack through that Delta dirt

                         G7
And I've worked hard the whole week long 
                          C
Picking my fingers to the blood and bone
                                F
There ain't a lot of money in a cotton bale 
   G7                    C
At least when you try to sell

Repeat #1

                            G7
On Saturday nights we'd get dressed up 
                     C
Catch us a ride on a pickup truck
                           F
On a gravel road it nearly strangled us 
     G7                   C
That cotton picking Delta dust

                              G7
We'd sit across the street on the depot porch 
                             C
Looking at the folks looking back at us
                           F
Munching on a dust covered ice cream cone 
    G7                          C
And wondering how we'd get back home

Repeat #1

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