Pickin' Time Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
Well, thank you [C]very much,
ladies and gentlemen.
It's a pleasure to be back
with you again
on the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree.
It's picking time in my part of
the country,
and [Am]it's [G]memory time for me, I guess.
I remember a lot of things that [C]happened when I was a little [Am]boy back home on the
[G]cotton farm and the faith that my [C]mother and daddy instilled in me
because they always believed
that things were
going to be all right.
Sometimes he tested us and tried us and put us through
a hard time.
But it seems he always gave us a blessing
that followed up the testing
and the [F]trying period.
A good [G]time when things were better
had pointed [Am]to a time when things would
[C]be a lot better.
Like the flood of 1937 -38,
we had [G]to head for the hills,
but [D]we came back [G]and that
old black muddy Mississippi
[C]brought in about six [F]inches of rich black dirt.
[C]And we planted the cotton the next
year
and it grew taller than it ever
[F]did before.
And when picking [C]time came,
things were a whole lot better.
Well, I got cotton in the bottom
[G]land.
It's up and growing and I got a
[C]good stand.
My good wife and them kids of [G]mine
are going to get new
[C]shoes come picking time.
Get [G]new shoes, come [C]pickin' time
Every night when I [G]go to bed
Thank the Lord that my [C]kids are fed
They live on beans eight days a [G]night
But I'll get them fat, come
[C]pickin' time
[G]Get them fat, come [C]pickin' time
It's hard to see by the coal oil [G]light
And I turn it off pretty [C]early at night
A jug of coal oil [G]cost a dime
But I set up late, come [C]pickin' time
Set [G]up late, come [C]pickin' time
My old wagon barely [G]gets me to town
Patch the wheels and wa[C]ter them down
Keep her in shape so [G]she'll be fine
So haul my cotton, come [C]pickin' time
Haul [G]my cotton, come
[C]pickin' time
Last Sunday morning
when they passed the [G]hat
It was almost [C]empty back where I sat
But the preacher smiled
and he said, that's [G]fine
The [D]Lord will [G]wait till [C]pickin' time
The [G]Lord will wait till [C]pickin' time.