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Joe Ely
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I been workin on the farm
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Just me and my brother Jack
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Choppin a sea of cotton
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Till I thought Id break my back
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Everything changed
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When my daddy got hurt
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Our lives were so connected
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to that brown ol flatland dirt
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When the government man from Austin
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Come sniffin around our land
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Askin a bunch of questions
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That we did not understand
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Theres more to farmin cotton
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Than just tendin to your seed
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The ones who set the policy
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Dont give a damn about our needs
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Sow the seed in the ground below
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Fall to your knees and pray real slow
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That rain will come and kiss the seed
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And Bless you with all that you need
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Mama says to Jackie
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Would she bring the car around?
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Shes wearin her finest dress
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Thats how I know shes goin to town
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I wish Id never seen that letter
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That I found there in her room
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Theyre sellin the farm on the courthouse step
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This Saturday afternoon
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Me and Jack moved into town
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To a shack by the train depot
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Jack got a job as a bouncer
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At a Bar on Paradise Row
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Mama got a job in the cotton gin
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Grading cotton by the bale
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She cried when a trailor full of cotton come in
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From the farm we had to sell
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Sow the seed in the ground below
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Fall to your knees and pray real slow
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That rain will come and kiss the seed
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And Bless you with all that you need
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Me, I ended up in jail
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Sick of livin on welfare
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And the hardest thing ever happend to me
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Is when mama come to vist me there
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Dont you worry your pretty little head
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I said as I buttoned my shirt
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When I get out of this Iron Hotel
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Im goin back to that Dryland dirt
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For some its just a livin
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But for Us its our whole life
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If it kills me Im gonna rake that dirt
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And make a livin out of toil and strife
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The ways of the cities makes no sense
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Strapped to dependency
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Id rather be sweatin aneath a clear blue sky
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Plantin cotton with my family
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Sow the seed in the ground below
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Fall to your knees and pray real slow
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That rain will come and kiss the seed
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And Bless you with all that you need
Simple Song: Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt an...
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