"I did [picking cotton] from - until I was 18 years old, that is. Then I picked the guitar, and I've been picking it since."

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My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in the Depression. So he worked as a woodman and cut pulpwood for the paper mills, rode the rails in boxcars going from one harvest to another to try to make a little money picking fruit or vegetables.

— Johnny Cash