Earl Scruggs
Song of the South

Capo 2: Carter-Style- Alternating

Intro:
CGFC X2 (Banjo Solo)
CGFC X2 (Guitar Solo)

Verse 1:
C                       G
Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch,
   F                            C
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich,
C                      G
Daddy was a veteran, a Southern Democrat,
    F                          C
You ought to get a rich man to vote like that, singing

Chorus:
C     G
Song, song of the south,
F                      C
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth,
C     G
Gone, gone with the wind,
F                    C
Ain’t nobody looking back again

CGFC X2 (Violin Solo)

Verse 2:
C                G
I was 18 ‘fore I ate my fill,
   F                            C
We lived off the garden and the cow’s goodwill,
C                  G
Winter was wet and summer was dry,
F                   C 
Mama she was old at,  35

Repeat Chorus

CGFC X2 (Guitar Solo)


Verse 3:
C                G
Somebody told us Wallstreet fell,
F               C
So damn poor we couldn’t even tell,
C                        G
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
    F               C
Mr. Roosevelt gonna save us all

REPEAT CHORUS

CGFC X2 (Banjo Solo)

Verse 4: 
C              G
Mama got sick, daddy got down,
    F                         C
The county got the farm so we moved to town,
C                         G
Daddy took a job with the TVA,
         F                       C
We got a washing machine, then a Chevrolet.

REPEAT CHORUS X3