Cotton Fields

In the cotton fields, starting at dawn
Blood and sweat under a blazing sun
Endless day has just begun
There's a storm on the horizon

The spirit soars, the body's numb
Muddy floors and a whip-scarred back
Collapsing in a one room shack
There's a storm on the horizon

Swing low, carry me home
So adrift, hard like a stone
Swing low in those cotton fields

The overseer, another grim pawn
Mississippi sun sinking way down
Cotton weighed pound for pound
There's a storm on the horizon

In the cotton fields, starting at dawn
Blood and sweat under a blazing sun
Endless day has just begun
There's a storm on the horizon

Swing low, carry me home
So adrift, hard like a stone
Swing low in those cotton fields

Swing low, carry me home
So adrift, hard like a stone
Swing low in those cotton fields
Swing low, carry me home
So adrift, hard like a stone
Swing low in those cotton fields