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Thread #49737 Message #1561192
Posted By: Peace
11-Sep-05 - 02:56 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Trouble in the Fields (Nanci Griffith)
Subject: ADD: TROUBLE IN THE FIELDS (Nanci Griffith)
>From the album "Lone Star State of Mind" 1987
TROUBLE IN THE FIELDS By Nanci Griffith and Rick West
G C Bm C Baby I know that we've got trouble in the fields G C When the bankers swarm like locusts out there D7 G Gsus turning away our yields G C Bm C The trains roll by our silo, silver in the rain G C And leave our pockets full of nothing D7 G C/G but our dreams and the golden grain
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G C D7sus And all this trouble in our fields G G/B C If this rain can fall, these wounds can heal D7 G C G They'll never take our native soil C D7 What if we sell that new John Deere? G G/B C And then we'll work these crops with sweat and tear G Am7 You'll be the mule, I'll be the plow; Bm7 C Come harvest time we'll work it out Am7 There's still a lot of love, D7 G Gsus here in these troubled fields
Have you seen the folks in line downtown at the station? They're all buying their tickets out and they're talking the great depression Our parents had their hard times fifty years ago When they stood out in these empty fields in dust as deep as snow
Chorus
There's a book up on the shelf about those dust bowl days And there's a little bit of me and a little bit of you in the photos on every page Now our children live out in the city and they rest upon our shoulders They never want this rain to fall or the weather to get colder
Chorus
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