Intro
G D A7 D
[Verse]
D
Pick a little cotton, and put it in the wagon
D A7
Take it to the gin and then
A7
Get yourself some money, and take out your honey
A7 D
And do it all over again
D
Oh, that's a life of a country boy
D G
He works from sun to sun
G D
He's just a hard workin' country lad
A7 D
But he's a happy son of a gun.
[Chorus]
D
He's just a hard workin' country boy out on the farm
D A7
Workin' from dawn to dusk
A7
G pickin' the cotton, G plowin' the fields
A7 D
And doin' the things he must
D
But on Saturday he'll head for town
D G
To have himself a little fun
G D
And when he's stompin' on a honky tonk hardwood floor
A7 D
He's a happy son of a gun.
[Instrumental]
D A7 D G D A7 D
[Verse]
D
Well, a country boy's got a wearied back
D A7
Cause workin' is all he's known
A7
He ain't got much just a blackland farm
A7 D
But that blackland farm's his own
D
He don't have to answer to any man
D G
And worries has he none
G D
And you can tell by lookin' this country boy's
A7 D
Just a happy son of a gun.
[Chorus]
D
He's just a hard workin' country boy out on the farm
D A7
Workin' from dawn to dusk
A7
G pickin' the cotton, G plowin' the fields
A7 D
And doin' the things he must
D
But on Saturday he'll head for town
D G
To have himself a little fun
G D
And when he's stompin' on a honky tonk hardwood floor
A7 D
He's a happy son of a gun.
[Outro]
G D
Now, when he's stompin' on a honky tonk hardwood floor
A7 D
He's a happy son of a gun