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