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Johnny Cash: Cotton Picker
Don't believe the lyrics to the late country icon's song 'I Never Picked Cotton.' Cash and his parents worked the cotton fields in northeast Arkansas during the Depression.
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D
June Carter wrote Ring of Fire, not Johnny Cash. He did, however, arrange it.
April 10 2010 at 9:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Jack Link
Cash's best song, "Ring of Fire", was written after he ate vindaloo curry at an Indian restaurant.
Trust me!
And it burns, burns, burns...........
Terry
Unrelated as it seems, he also served in the USAF, in the security services division, and was stationed at San Anton(io), TX. I lived across the street from the only stateside site where he served in the 1950s. Cotton pickin' was a move UP from that duty.
December 26 2007 at 4:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Shianne
my grandpa, wayne raney recorded with johnny cash and i am a HUGE johnny cash fan
October 03 2007 at 4:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Eric
Yes, Johnny Cash did record "I Never Picked Cotton", although he very likely wasn't the first to record it...it came out on his "Unchained" album, which featured Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers as his backing band...
September 30 2007 at 5:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
ginger
MY AUNT BETTY KNEW JOHNNY CASH & PICKED COTTON WITH HIM. I LOVE TO HEAR HIM SING
September 02 2007 at 7:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Bug
I guess it beats booger pickin.
September 02 2007 at 2:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
JERALD ABERNATHY
my mother & her family picked cotton,not everbody could afford a picker
Mishee
Johnny Cash started picking cotton at age 5 in 1937. The Great Depression started in 1929 and didn't end unitl 1940. My mom was born in 1923 and remembers it very well.
May 06 2007 at 2:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
bb
to the person who posted the bit about Cash being to young to pick cotton in the Depression...sharecropping in the prior to WWII was pretty much the hardest living in the country, it involved childlabor, if you were big enough to walk and follow directions, picking cotton was going to be something you did. Also, for most rural areas, the Depression didn't end until WWII, maybe not even until the Rural Electrification. Times were hard.
May 06 2007 at 1:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
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