BE ALL RIGHT IN ARKANSAS
(Gerry House / Billy Burns)


Connie Smith - 1973





Born in Arkansas, Mississippi River at my backdoor
If that blackland was so doggone rich, how come we were so poor
Pick that cotton in daytime, pick guitar at night
Daddy said, "Hon, keep on pickin', everthing gonna be all right"

A'be all right (Be all right) in Arkansas (Arkansas)
We'll have shoes for school, new clothes too
And go to the fair next fall
Be all right (Be all right) in Arkansas (Be all right in Arkansas)
Everthing's gonna be all right in Arkansas

Seemed like ev'ry year somethin' happened to the cotton crop
If draught didn' wipe us out ,there were rains that never stopped
Clouds came up that mornin', river came up that night
Daddy said, "Pack up the pickup, hon, everthing gonna be all right"

A'be all right (Be all right) in Arkansas (Arkansas)
We'll have shoes for school, new clothes too
And go to the fair next fall
Be all right (Be all right) in Arkansas (Be all right in Arkansas)
Everthing's gonna be all right in Arkansas

Stayed away till the river went down and then we went back home
That blackland was just black mud and all our cotton was gone
Can't forget how daddy looked the day I saw him cry
But through his tears he said, "Next year everthing gonna be all right"

A'be all right (Be all right) in Arkansas (Arkansas)
We'll have shoes for school, new clothes too
And go to the fair next fall
Be all right (Be all right) in Arkansas (Be all right in Arkansas)
Everthing's gonna be all right in Arkansas






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2012)