Intro
A# F C7 F
[Verse]
F
Pick a little cotton, and put it in the wagon
F C7
Take it to the gin and then
C7
Get yourself some money, and take out your honey
C7 F
And do it all over again
F
Oh, that's a life of a country boy
F A#
He works from sun to sun
A# F
He's just a hard workin' country lad
C7 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 C7
Workin' from dawn to dusk
C7
A# pickin' the cotton, A# plowin' the fields
C7 F
And doin' the things he must
F
But on Saturday he'll head for town
F A#
To have himself a little fun
A# F
And when he's stompin' on a honky tonk hardwood floor
C7 F
He's a happy son of a gun.
[Instrumental]
F C7 F A# F C7 F
[Verse]
F
Well, a country boy's got a wearied back
F C7
Cause workin' is all he's known
C7
He ain't got much just a blackland farm
C7 F
But that blackland farm's his own
F
He don't have to answer to any man
F A#
And worries has he none
A# F
And you can tell by lookin' this country boy's
C7 F
Just a happy son of a gun.
[Chorus]
F
He's just a hard workin' country boy out on the farm
F C7
Workin' from dawn to dusk
C7
A# pickin' the cotton, A# plowin' the fields
C7 F
And doin' the things he must
F
But on Saturday he'll head for town
F A#
To have himself a little fun
A# F
And when he's stompin' on a honky tonk hardwood floor
C7 F
He's a happy son of a gun.
[Outro]
A# F
Now, when he's stompin' on a honky tonk hardwood floor
C7 F
He's a happy son of a gun