Lyr Req: Thank God I'm a Black Dirt Farmer

Subject: Thank God I'm A Black Dirt Farmer
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Date: 31 May 99 - 02:10 PM

A friend of a friend is expecting to pass away soon, and has asked my friend to sing this song at her funeral. She has no more information about it than the title "Thank God I'm a Black Dirt Farmer". I am thinking that it might be a Canadian folksong, but I have nothing else to go on. I have checked many of the folksong databases with no luck. Any one?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Thank God I'm a Black Dirt Farmer
From: GUEST,#
Date: 22 Mar 21 - 04:56 PM

This is late in so many ways. Perhaps it's the song requested by the OP many years back.

Black Land Farmer by Frankie Miller

Giddy-on-up boy

When the lord made me
He made a simple man
Not much money and not much land
He didn't make me no banker or legal charmer
When the lord made me he made a black land farmer

Well my hands ain't smooth, my face is rough
But my heart is warm and my ways ain't tough
I guess I'm the luckiest man ever born
'Cause the lord gave me health
And a black land farm

Breaking up the new ground early in the day
Gonna plant cotton, I'm gonna plant hay
I love the smell of sweet breeze
Blowin' through the corn
Lord you sho' done me right
By my black land farm

I feel like I'm a-gettin' closer to you, God
Plowing up the ground and a-breaking up the sod
Well my mind is set at ease and I could do no harm
Lord, I owe it all to you
And my blackland farm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DheABBYirhk