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