Originally Posted by stxhunter
Originally Posted by Cheesy
I never picked cotton
But my mother did and my brother did
And my sister did and my daddy died young
Workin' in the coal mine


(Actually it was my grandmother did and her brother did growing up in Arkansas)

picking cotton and chopping cotton are two different things have done both, picked watermelons also.


Yep. What folks call chopping cotton is hoeing the weeds out of the rows of cotton.

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