KING COTTON      Pick the cotton and pick the cotton and pick the cotton some more!      You’re pickin’ cotton until you drop    You’re never getting’ away   You’d rather be in a coffee shop   With fish and chips on your tray.      You’re bendin’ down    Your back is broke    Your fingers ache and    Your feet are smokin’      Your head is numb   Your legs are gone    And you’ve got nothing to say      You’re pickin’ cotton the whole day through   Until the evening is done   You’ll never get a vacation or a getaway for some fun      You grind your knees into the dirt   You rip your pants and you tear your shirt   But you can’t complain, your back’s in pain    And you get nothin’ for pay      ‘Cause that sonavabitch will never let you   Take a break at all,   You’ll never get any food    Or water, juice or alcohol      So pick your cotton, boy. This rotten   Day has just begun, and you will   Not be done with pickin’ till it’s    Later in the Fall      I’m tellin’ you what my life is like   So listen up my friend   My mother is holding up all right   Although her back don’t bend      We pick all day, we pick all night   And when the day is over we can   Grab a little nap and then we do it all again.            TRIO      You’ll never guess how much I really love this job,   So, I’m giving you fair warning   I love the foreman who can make my mother sob   While cotton pickin’ in the morning.      You see that bastard with the whip? His name is “Bob”.   Woke me up at five this morning,      You’ll never know how much I’d love to stab that slob   And spread his guts to rot ‘til dawning         DOGFIGHT         You’ve got to   Bend down, open a boll   Pick out the fluff, bag it!      If your bag’s getting’ full   Harder to pull, drag it!      Fill the bag my friend   Fill it once again   Do it till your fingers bleed, boy!      TRIO (REPRISE)         You’ll never know how much I love plantation life,   Full of sweet perfume and romance;   You’ll never know how much I’d like to use Bob’s knife    To separate him from his gonads.