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