Song Of The South
recorded by Alabama
written by Bob McDill
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Song song of the South
C
Sweet potato pie and shut my mouth
G D7
Gone gone with the wind
C
Ain't nobody looking back again
G D7
Cotton on the roadside cotton in the ditch
C
We all picked cotton but we never got rich
G D7
Daddy was a veteran southern democrat
C
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that
Repeat #1
G D7
Well somebody told us that Wall Street fell
C
But we were so poor we couldn't tell
G D7
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
C
But Mr. Roosevelt was gonna save us all
G D7
Well momma got sick and daddy got down
C
The county got the farm and we moved to town
G D7
Papa got a job with the TVA
C
He bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet
Repeat #1
