Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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See that man in the field over yonder
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With dirt on his hands
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and a loan on his back
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He's the man that puts the
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food on your table
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He's the man that grows
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the clothes on your back
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Were running a mile out of the
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house he was born in
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Tending on the sidelines and
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watching him fall
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Selling his land to the big corporations
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What you gonna do when they get it all
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He's been rolled for
Verse 2
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treated like a outlaw
Turned down sold out, put out to graze
He's been pushed you know
when he can push no more
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It gets a little harder everyday
Verse 3
[Chorus]
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He's the American farmer
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And he damn hard to beat
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Better wake up America, wake up America
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'Cause if the man don't work
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then the people don't eat
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He's
Verse 4
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sending
the
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high tech stuff of to Russia
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I can't figure what where doing it for
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We should be sending the wheat and
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meat and cotton
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'Cause that man in the middle of city
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Eatin' outta garbage cans,
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sleepin' in the street
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See that baby, moping in the kitty
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To make ends meet
Verse 5
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It's a damn disgrace on
the face of America
Hungry people everywhere you go
Children in Africa starving by the fields
While the land lays fallow and
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the banks foreclose
Verse 6
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[Chorus]
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He's an American,
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he's
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an American,
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he's an American, American farmer
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Never him through
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'Cause if he goes down swinging
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You better know where gonna go down
swinging to
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Verse 7
[Chorus]
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I said the people don't
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eat
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I said the people don't eat
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