Song Of The South
by
Alabama

  
A      E
Song song of the South
D                     
Sweet potato pie and shut my mouth
A      E
Gone gone with the wind
D                     
Ain't nobody looking back again

 

A                        E
Cotton on the roadside cotton in the ditch
D
We all picked cotton but we never got rich
A              E
Daddy was a veteran southern democrat
D
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that

Repeat #1

 
A                             E
Well somebody told us that Wall Street fell
D
But we were so poor that we couldn't tel
A                          E
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
D
But Mr. Roosevelt was gonna save us all

 
A                        E
Well momma got sick and daddy got down
D
The county got the farm and we moved to town
A                       E
Papa got a job with the TVA
D
He bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet

Repeat #1