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Thread #1827   Message #2763176
Posted By: Jim Dixon
09-Nov-09 - 10:04 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 20 Cent Cotton, 90 Cent Meat
Subject: RE: 20 Cent Cotton, 90 Cent Meat
Here's my transcription from the sound file at Honking Duck:


FOUR CENT COTTON
As sung by the Skillet Lickers
Columbia 15746-D :: Recorded October 24, 1931 :: Issued July 1932

Goin' down the road, hootin' and a-hollerin',
I got drunk on four-cent cotton.

Woke up this mornin' feelin' kind o' rotten.
I've been drunk on four-cent cotton.

Times is gettin' hard. They're gettin' kind o' rotten.
Ever'body's sellin' four-cent cotton.