Pickin' Time

(album: The Fabulous Johnny Cash - 1959)

I got cotton in the bottom land
It's up and growing and I got a good stand
My good wife and them kids of mine
Gonna get new shoes, come Picking Time
Get new shoes come Picking Time.

Ev'ry night when I go to bed
I thank the Lord that my kids are fed
They live on beans eight days and nine
But I get 'em fat come Picking Time
Get 'em fat come come Picking Time.

The corn is yellow and the beans are high
The sun is hot in the summer sky
The work is hard til laying by
Laying by til Picking Time
Laying by til Picking Time.

It's hard to see by the coal-oil light
And I turn it off purty early at night
'Cause a jug of coal-oil costs a dime
But I stay up late come Picking Time
Stay up late come Picking Time.

My old wagon barely gets me to town
I patched the wheels and I watered 'em down
Keep her in shape so she'll be fine
To haul my cotton come Picking Time
Haul my cotton come Picking Time.

Last Sunday morning when they passed the hat
It was still nearly empty back where I sat
But the preacher smiled and said that's fine
The Lord'll wait til Picking Time
The Lord'll wait til Picking Time.