Song of the South    (video)

 

    A - E - D - A (2x)

 

A              E                               D                                            A

    Song, song of the South, sweet potato pie and shut my mouth,

A             E                             D                                          A

    gone, gone with the wind, ain't nobody looking back again.

 

      A                                    E

1. Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch,

           D                                     A

    we all picked cotton but we never got rich.

      A                                  E

    Daddy was a veteran southern democrat,

             D                                      A

    they oughta get a rich man to vote like that. Singing :

 

+  CHORUS      +  A - E - D - A (2x)   + A ~

 

       A                                   E

2. Somebody told us that Wall Street fell,

           D                         A

    but we were so poor we couldn't tell.

      A                                        E

    Cotton was short and the weeds were tall,

                    D                                           A     - D

    but Mr. Roosevelt was gonna save us all.

 

                A                               E

3. Well, momma got sick and daddy got down,

             D                                          A

    the county got the farm and we moved to town.

       A                                 E

    Papa got a job with the TVA,

                          D                                               D

    he bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet.

 

+  CHORUS (ending in D)      +  A - E - D - A (2x)

 

+  CHORUS (3x, with slight variations) ...

 

    (Alabama)