Country Music Songs about the Working Man (1/2) I Never Picked Cotton (Roy Clark)

Country Music Songs about the Working Man (1/2)

Country Music Songs about the Working Man (1/2) I Never Picked Cotton (Roy Clark)

For decades, country music has given voice to the working men and women who have kept the wheels turning in the farms, mines, factories, job sites, roads, stores, schools, homes, hospitals and offices across America. The folk music of the Scottish and Irish immigrants of Appalachia, the blues and hollers from African American slaves in the South, the Spanish influence on the southwest border and the Acadian, Cajun and Caribbean music of Louisiana have all blended to create an irresistible gumbo of tune, rhythm and verse. Full List. http://rjbocm.com.p8.hostingprod.com/songs/working_man_songs

Category:

Music

Tags:

• movie
• 11

[flashbell]

Channel Policy: We have a Zero tolerance for comments that include profanity, derogatory remarks made toward another viewer, an artist, any song or video. We have a channel hound trained to sniff out offensive language including profanity, racial slurs and other comments deemed offensive in nature. Anyone who chooses to ignore our channel policy will be nuked (blocked) from our channel. Just don’t do it!

[brucekimber]

True story: Roy Clark sang this song in our living room. When he got to the chorus, he would sing "I never picked cotton, but my mother did, and my brother did, and my sister did, but my Daddy died young, sittin on a shit pot." We all laughed. That was a lifetime ago.

[yopagedotcom]

I can still see the look in the old timers faces talking about picking cotton and the coal mines of Oklahoma. The towns are just a forgotten spot in the road now.

[a23azza]

amazing song

[igobackwards]

mydad did too

[tyme4mike]

Pickin' at its finest by one of country music's finest. I was just a wee shaver when I first heard this song and I would listen to it over and over trying to picture the family he was singing about. I guess it was because we were so poor and the story the song told reminded me of my own family and an uncle who went to prison for armed robbery.

[78BROWNB]

Actually Charlie William's wrote this song

[feariguodala]

This isn't really about the working man. It is someone rejecting that life.

[xxmaxexstreamxx]

For The Person who said Roy Clark wrote This. He Dint Johnny Cash Wrote This. and it usually Starts out the the back up singin Do What You do Best Boy Do What You do best Boy Pick That Cotten

[styx4ever1963]

Great Roy Clark song thanks for posting!

[havik542]

This was my father's theme song. I am now middle class but I remember to "never forget where I came from." I am the 99%.

[wingman572]

nice version, wow. i seen him do this once on hee-haw yrs ago, but it did'nt sound like this