High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Song of the South" is a country song written by Bob McDill. First recorded by Johnny Russell, it reached #57 on the U.S. Billboard country chart in 1981. Covered by Tom T. Hall and Earl Scruggs, it was a #72 country single for them in 1982 from the album Storyteller and the Banjo Man. A cover released in November 1988 by Alabama, from their album Southern Star, reached Number One on the U.S. country charts. The song tells the story of a poor Southern cotton farm-family during The Great Depression. "Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch. We all picked the cotton but we never got rich." "Well somebody told us Wall Street fell, but we was so poor that we couldn't tell." The song references President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in the line, "The cotton was short and the weeds was tall, but Mr. Roosevelt's gonna save us all." The father of the family is a Southern Democrat.

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