Lyr Req: Ricky Skaggs

Subject: Lyr Req: Ricky Skaggs
From: GUEST,leecar
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 04:03 PM

I am looking for a song I believe that Ricky Skaggs performed. Don't know the title. It was about farming and losing the farm at auction. Any help would be appreciated.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ricky Skaggs
From: tarheel
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 05:20 PM

THIRTY YEARS OF FARMING by James King...on Rounder Records!!!
title cut of cd by same name!!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ricky Skaggs
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jan 05 - 06:48 PM

GUEST, Leecar--

Ricky performed and sang "Thirty Years of Farming" on the Three Pickers album, along with Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson. A superlative CD and lots of excellent performances from all three of them.

Lin

Subject: Lyr Add: THIRTY YEARS OF FARMING (Fred Eaglesmith)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 05 Jan 05 - 08:09 AM

Lyrics and chords copied from http://www.jason.hammond.net/fsw/eaglesmith/tab/thirty_years_of_farming.txt

THIRTY YEARS OF FARMING
(Fred J. Eaglesmith)

(Key of B, played in open G position with capo at 4th fret)

 G
  
             G                                                C                G
  There's a little white note on the gate by the road that a man put up yesterday
        G                                     A                  D
  And when we saw it, we all ran out just to see what it had to say.
        G                                                    C                       G
  And when we read it, our eyes filled with tears, and they fell to the cold, hard clay
   G                                                                        D          G
  Something about a mortgage, something about foreclosure, something about failing to pay.

CHORUS: Oh, and on the post by the general store, they put up a little sign
An auction sale day after tomorrow at the end of the Lincoln Line
Thirty years of farming, thirty years of heartache, thirty years of day to day
Oh, my daddy stopped talking the day the farm was auctioned, there was nothing left to say.

Oh, my mama's tears fell freely down as she walked amongst the flowers in the yard.
And every number the auctioneer called was like a blow to her precious heart
And every number the auctioneer called meant another thing was sold that day
'Til everything was auctioned, and we stood there watching as they loaded it and drove it away. CHORUS

At the day's first dawning, we awoke this morning, there was nothing for us to do,
Nothing in the granary, no hay in the mow, no cattle, no tractor, no tools.
So we loaded up the car, took the clothes that we wore and a few things we managed to save.
Mama read from the Book, we took one last look, and then we drove away. CHORUS

Oh, my daddy stopped talking the day the farm was auctioned, there was nothing left to say.

[Recorded by James King on "Thirty Years of Farming," 2002; and by Fred J. Eaglesmith on "Indiana Road," 2004.]

[The track list for the CD The Three Pickers doesn't list THIRTY YEARS OF FARMING. Maybe it's on the DVD?]