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