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We didn't know the times were lean
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Around our home the grass was green
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It didn't seem like things were all that bad
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I bet we walked a thousand miles
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Chopping cotton and pushing plows
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And learning how to give it all we had
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As life went on and years went by
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I saw the light in daddy's eyes
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And felt the love in mama's hands
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They kept us warm and kept us fed
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Taught us how to look ahead
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Now looking back I understand
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We Were Walking in High Cotton
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Old times there are not forgotten
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Those fertile fields are never far away
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We were walking in high cotton
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Old times there are not forgotten
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Leaving home was the hardest thing we ever faced
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When Sunday morning rolled around
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We dressed up in hand-me downs
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Just in time together with the church
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Sometimes I think how long it's been
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And how it impressed me then
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It was the only day my daddy wouldn't work
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We Were Walking in High Cotton
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Old times there are not forgotten
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Those fertile fields are never far away
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We were walking in high cotton
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Old times there are not forgotten
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Leaving home was the hardest thing we ever faced