Charlie Pride had a hit called "Mississippi Cotton Pickin' Delta Town."
I never heard that one, but I know Roy Clark's I Never Picked Cotton by heart. In fact, about ten years ago, when I was standing in the cotton field up on the caprock that used to be my great-grandparents' farm, my mother's cousin's husband was telling me about "stripping cotton" when he was a kid. I told him that I'd used the Roy Clark method: I never picked cotton...Charlie Pride had a hit called "Mississippi Cotton Pickin' Delta Town."
Btw, he's black...
Lol, I never did either, nor do I think my older siblings did.
Can't say I did, but my grandpa raised "registered seed peanuts," so my dad had lots of experience with them. Dad said Grandpa raised cotton once, but that was it. Apparently, peanuts was a controlled crop, and you had to have some kind of allotment to raise them. Grandpa raised them until he got some bad advice about it and planted something else one year, then couldn't get back into peanuts. I was just a kid and don't know the details, but I remember him being hopping mad over it.
