Here's my farm song...if you should want it for your farm songbook don't worry about a copyright..
Losing of the Farm...
The rising costs the interest rates our second year of drought We always said no matter what we'd somehow tough it out Every year that's passed has brought us deeper into debt But till the letter came we thought we weren't defeated yet
So soon we'll disassemble the work of all these years Tomorrow either Fred or I will call the auctioneers The pens the barns the silos the fancy milking stall Two hundred fertile acres oh dear God we've lost it all
Maybe Fred will hire out to a farmer not yet broke But mucking someone else's cows will make that proud man choke I'll get a job in town the kids are old enough to leave There's too much work that must be done too little time to grieve
Perhaps it isn't right to get attached to mud and dirt and no one but his wife can know how much a man can hurt But tonight a million farmers in a million loving arms Are seeking consolation for the losing of their farms
Oh you who live in cities and your lives are a success You haven't any notion how this country's in a mess The song that I am singing should cause you such alarm The song we'll all be singing soon is the losing of the farm.
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