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Verse
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Pick a little cotton, and put it in the wagon
E B7
Take it to the gin and then
B7
Get yourself some money, and take out your honey
B7 E
And do it all over again
E
Oh, that's a life of a country boy
E A
He works from sun to sun
A E
He's just a hard workin' country lad
B7 E
But he's a happy son of a gun.
E
He's just a hard workin' country boy out on the farm
E B7
Workin' from dawn to dusk
B7
A pickin' the cotton, A plowin' the fields
B7 E
And doin' the things he must
E
But on Saturday he'll head for town
E A
To have himself a little fun
A E
And when he's stompin' on a honky tonk hardwood floor
B7 E
He's a happy son of a gun. 
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Verse
E
Well, a country boy's got a wearied back
E B7
Cause workin' is all he's known
B7
He ain't got much just a blackland farm
B7 E
But that blackland farm's his own
E
He don't have to answer to any man
E A
And worries has he none
A E
And you can tell by lookin' this country boy's
B7 E
Just a happy son of a gun.
E
He's just a hard workin' country boy out on the farm
E B7
Workin' from dawn to dusk
B7
A pickin' the cotton, A plowin' the fields
B7 E
And doin' the things he must
E
But on Saturday he'll head for town
E A
To have himself a little fun
A E
And when he's stompin' on a honky tonk hardwood floor
B7 E
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
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