Intro
B F# C#7 F#
[Verse]
F#
Pick a little cotton, and put it in the wagon
F# C#7
Take it to the gin and then
C#7
Get yourself some money, and take out your honey
C#7 F#
And do it all over again
F#
Oh, that's a life of a country boy
F# B
He works from sun to sun
B F#
He's just a hard workin' country lad
C#7 F#
But he's a happy son of a gun.
[Chorus]
F#
He's just a hard workin' country boy out on the farm
F# C#7
Workin' from dawn to dusk
C#7
B pickin' the cotton, B plowin' the fields
C#7 F#
And doin' the things he must
F#
But on Saturday he'll head for town
F# B
To have himself a little fun
B F#
And when he's stompin' on a honky tonk hardwood floor
C#7 F#
He's a happy son of a gun.
[Instrumental]
F# C#7 F# B F# C#7 F#
[Verse]
F#
Well, a country boy's got a wearied back
F# C#7
Cause workin' is all he's known
C#7
He ain't got much just a blackland farm
C#7 F#
But that blackland farm's his own
F#
He don't have to answer to any man
F# B
And worries has he none
B F#
And you can tell by lookin' this country boy's
C#7 F#
Just a happy son of a gun.
[Chorus]
F#
He's just a hard workin' country boy out on the farm
F# C#7
Workin' from dawn to dusk
C#7
B pickin' the cotton, B plowin' the fields
C#7 F#
And doin' the things he must
F#
But on Saturday he'll head for town
F# B
To have himself a little fun
B F#
And when he's stompin' on a honky tonk hardwood floor
C#7 F#
He's a happy son of a gun.
[Outro]
B F#
Now, when he's stompin' on a honky tonk hardwood floor
C#7 F#
He's a happy son of a gun