“Jesus Was Our Saviour And Cotton Was Our King”
When me and little Tommy rode the first load in the town
The cotton gin was ginning out the pennies for the pounds
Like a giant vacuum cleaner sucking let up off the ground
Our freckled faces sparkled then like diamonds in the rough
With smiles it smells of snaggleteeth and good old Garett snuff
If I could I would be tradin’ all this fat back for the lean
When Jesus was our Saviour and cotton was our king
This kind of life we’re living beats all I’ve ever seen
Seems some of us was born for picking things and eaten beans
Still I reckon girl or diggin’ fairly well in our means
Cause Jesus was our Saviour and cotton was our king
Our freckled faces sparkled then like diamonds in the rough
With smiles it smells of snaggleteeth and good old Garett snuff
If I could I would be tradin’ all this fat back for the lean
When Jesus was our Saviour and cotton was our king
Our freckled faces sparkled then like diamonds in the rough
With smiles it smells of snaggleteeth and good old Garett snuff
If I could I would be tradin’ all this fat back for the lean
When Jesus was our Saviour and cotton was our king
About Johnny Cash Lyrics
Artist: Johnny Cash
Related songs: The Night They Lyrics
Album: John R. Cash”
Release date: January 1975
Label: Columbia Nashville Legacy
Born: February 26, 1932, Kingsland, Arkansas, United States
Died: September 12, 2003, Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Graduation date: 1950
Edited works: I Walk the Line: Very Best of Johnny Cash, MORE
Hall of fame inductions: February 8, 1960, 1977, 1992, 2011