Intro
F C G7 C
[Verse]
C
Pick a little cotton, and put it in the wagon
C G7
Take it to the gin and then
G7
Get yourself some money, and take out your honey
G7 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
G7 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 G7
Workin' from dawn to dusk
G7
F pickin' the cotton, F plowin' the fields
G7 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
G7 C
He's a happy son of a gun.
[Instrumental]
C G7 C F C G7 C
[Verse]
C
Well, a country boy's got a wearied back
C G7
Cause workin' is all he's known
G7
He ain't got much just a blackland farm
G7 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
G7 C
Just a happy son of a gun.
[Chorus]
C
He's just a hard workin' country boy out on the farm
C G7
Workin' from dawn to dusk
G7
F pickin' the cotton, F plowin' the fields
G7 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
G7 C
He's a happy son of a gun.
[Outro]
F C
Now, when he's stompin' on a honky tonk hardwood floor
G7 C
He's a happy son of a gun