Everybody knows
Catfish got no scales
Everybody knows
That cotton comes in bales
The Mississippi River Deep and muddy stream
I just sit on the bank
and fish while I dream whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa whoa
I can't pick no cotton
I can't pick no corn It just keeps on raining
And I just stay at home whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa whoa
I am so miserable
I am so tired I watch that Mississippi river
till the fishes swim by
my life is so confused
but I don't want to die
I wanna go to heaven
but I am afraid to fly whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa whoa
I know I know I know
I never meant to do what I did