One Row At A Time Song Lyrics and Chords by Merle Haggard
One Row At A Time
Recorded by Merle Haggard
Written by Red Lane and Dottie West
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The southeast Georgia red clay dust is
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ground into my
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A heavy hundred pound cotton sack a dragging along
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behind
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Wanting to leave this place so bad I
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forget how I
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got
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way back
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home
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one row at a
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It's
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a long old cotton road between here and Waco
Then three days of bumming to that California
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And two more days of picking to that
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house just south of
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Working my
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way back
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home
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Mississippi delta mud is
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caked in layers on my
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brogans
Sunshine on the snow white cotton nearly makes me
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blind
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I can almost see 'em now a
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home-folk running out to
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meet
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way back
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home
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way back
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home
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FAQ
Who sang the the song One Row At A Time?
- The song One Row At A Time was sang by Merle Haggard.
Who is Merle Haggard?
- Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 - April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.
Haggard was born in Oildale, California, during the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launch a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class that occasionally contained themes contrary to anti-Vietnam War sentiment of some popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart. Haggard continued to release successful albums into the 2000s.
He received many honors and awards for his music, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), a BMI Icon Award (2006), and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977), Country Music Hall of Fame (1994) and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997). He died on April 6, 2016—his 79th birthday—at his ranch in Shasta County, California, having recently suffered from double pneumonia.
