Cotton Crop Blues - Original - James Cotton

Ain’t gonna raise no more cotton

I’ll tell you the reason why I say so

Ain’t gonna raise no more cotton

Tell you the reason why I say so

Well, you don’t get nothin' for your cotton

And your seed’s so doggone low

Well‚ like raising a good cotton crop

Just like a lucky man shootin' dice

Well‚ like raising a good cotton crop

Just like a lucky man shootin' dice

Waitin' all the summer to make your cotton

When fall come‚ it still ain’t no price

Oh now

Oh help me pick right, young boy

Oh yeah

So dark and muddy on this farm

I have plowed so hard, baby

Corns got all in my hands

I have plowed so hard‚ baby

Corns have got all in my hands

I wanna tell you people

It ain’t nothin' for a poor farmin' man