by Mose
Allison
recording of 1966
from Bluesbreakers
with Eric Clapton (Deram 800086 or Mobile Fidelity
616), copyright
notice
I'm sitting over here on Parchman
farm1
I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
Ain't never done no man no harm
Well, I'm putting that cotton in a never-full sack
Well, I'm putting that cotton in a never-full sack
Well, I'm putting that cotton in a never-full sack
A twelve-gauge shotgun at my back
I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
I'm sitting over here on Parchman farm
Ain't never done no man no harm
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Note 1: Parchman Farm, the state prison in Parchman,
Mississippi. Parchman was a complex of 15 labor camps covering a
large area in Mississippi, a closed society of black men who were
offered as "contract" labor to farms, railroads and industries of
many sorts, passed around to do labor for the financial benefit of
both the contractor and the state who sold them.
