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