When it's peach picking time in Georgia apple picking time in Tennessee   Cotton picking time in Mississippi everybody picks on me   When it's roundup time in Texas the cowboys make whoopee   And way down in old Alabama it's gal picking time for me      There's the bluegrass down in Kentucky Virginia's where they do the swing   Carolina now I'm a coming to you come and just to spend the spring   Arkansas I hear you calling I know I'll see you soon   That's where we'll do some picking beneath the Ozark moon   [ fiddle ]   When the pickininees pick the cotton that's the time I pick a wedding ring   We'll go to the town to pick a little gown for the wedding in the spring   Hope the preacher knows his business I know he can't fool me   When it's peach picking time in Georgia it's gal picking time for me