Intro: Am D C G
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Aunt Mattie bent a thousand times, down the long black rows
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Then battled with the angry weeds, so little seeds could grow
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Come summer, Mattie pulled the snow from cruel and cutting bolls
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She was patient pale and slender and was only eight years old
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Round 'n round the spinning wheel, beneath Aunt Mattie's boot
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She recalled the soil and cotton seeds and summer's hopeful shoots
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Two winters spun out summer's threads, in rich and creamy folds
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And she had a bolt of cotton cloth when she turned ten years old
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