Eleven Cent Cotton chords - Porter Wagoner

How to Play "Eleven Cent Cotton" Guitar chords

Eleven Cent Cotton
Wagoner/Stuart
NOTE: In the first verse, don't play the B7.  In all other verses, it's played.


INTRO: E

E
Eleven cent cotton and a forty cent meat
E
How in the world can a poor man eat
E
Mule's up high, cotton down low
                                       B7        E
How in the world in the world can they raise the dough


CHORUS:
        A             E
Take me back, take me back
        B7                      E
Take me back to my old Carolina home


Eleven cent cotton and a heavy land tax

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Uncle Sam's got my money and he can't get it back
Debt's got the farmer, we all know well
If it don't turn around she's gone to hell


CHORUS


SOLO: D  E  D  E  D  E  B7  E  A  E  B7  E


No fish in the pond, no worms in the ground
Mockin' bird's singin' and he ain't made a sound
So I jumped in the river and I thought I'd drown
Seen a redheaded woman and I couldn't go down


CHORUS (2x)


SOLO

E
Eleven cent cotton and a forty cent meat
                       B7       E
How in the world can a poor man eat


OUTRO: D  E