[ti:Mississippi Cotton Picking Del] [ar:Charley Pride] [al:The Essential Charley Pride] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town - Charley Pride [00:00.54]In a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [00:05.53]One dusty street to walk up and down [00:09.40]Nothin' much to see but a starvin' hound [00:13.08]In a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [00:20.25]Down in the Delta where I was born [00:24.05]All we raised was cotton potatoes and corn [00:27.92]I've picked cotton till my fingers hurt [00:31.85]Draggin' the sack through that Delta dirt [00:38.70]And I've worked hard the whole week long [00:42.64]Pickin' my fingers to the blood and bone [00:46.34]There ain't a lot of money in a cotton bale [00:50.14]At least when you try to sell [00:53.38]In a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [00:57.99]One dusty street to walk up and down [01:02.12]Nothin' much to see but a starvin' hound [01:05.73]In a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [01:12.79]On Saturday nights we'd get dressed up [01:16.74]Catch us a ride on a pickup truck [01:20.26]On a gravel road it neatly string to lust [01:24.21]That cotton pickin' Delta dust [01:28.27]We'd sit across the street on the depot porch [01:32.27]Lookin' at the folks lookin' back at us [01:36.14]Munchin' on a dust covered ice cream cone [01:40.07]And wondering how we'd get back home [01:42.93]From a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [01:47.68]One dusty street to walk up and down [01:51.69]Nothin' much to do but a starvin' hound [01:55.45]In a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [01:59.60]From a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town [02:04.29]One dusty street to walk up and down [02:08.35]Nothin' much to do but a starvin' hound [02:12.03]In a Mississippi cotton pickin' Delta town