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Thread #1827 Message #3739986
Posted By: cnd
26-Sep-15 - 06:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 20 Cent Cotton, 90 Cent Meat
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 20 Cent Cotton, 90 Cent Meat
There were also slightly-different versions recorded by Stringbean as "Fifty-Cent Cotton, Ninety-Cent Meat" (some inflation going on!), (listen), and as "Seven-Cent Cotton and Forty-Cent Meat Jim Lauderdale (listen), Pete Seeger (listen), and as "Eleven-Cent Cotton" by Porter Wagoner (listen). There was also versions recorded by Wendell Hall and Mickey Galyean on Spotify.
There's also a song called "Four-Cent Cotton" about the Whiskey Tax with the following lyrics:
FOUR-CENT COTTON
(Lowe Stokes)
Old John Davy is dead and rottin'
He got drunk on four-cent cotton
Hey, hey four-cent cotton
Hey, hey four-cent cotton
Sleep all night with a hole in your stockin'
Get no more of the four cent cotton'
Hey, hey four-cent cotton
Hey, hey four-cent cotton
All year runnin' in cotton
I went broke on four cent cotton.
Hey, hey four-cent cotton
Hey, hey four-cent cotton
Billie goat a-runnin' in the holler
We gonna sell some four cent cotton
Hey, hey four-cent cotton
Hey, hey four-cent cotton
Four cent cotton sure as you're born
I'm gonna drink some Georgia corn,
Hey, hey four-cent cotton
Hey, hey four-cent cotton
Source: http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/four-cent-cotton--lowe-stokes--1930.aspx
There's also a different version of it here: http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/old-time-music/old-time-songs/four_cent_cotton.html
There's also a (in my opinion) not-so-great different punk-rock song by Stephen Dale Petit under the name "7 Cent Cotton."