Farmer's Blues chords by Blue Highway
Verse 1
G
I once was a farmer
Dm
and I worked on the land
G
C
sunup to sundown
Verse 2
C
G
But you live by the plow
F
and you die by the same
G
C
The story it's often been told
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Interlude 1
G
F
C
G
C
G
C
G
C
Verse 3
C
G
Well the workin' was hard
F
but the living was good
G
C
and your time was your own
Verse 4
C
G
But how can a man
F
make his life on the land
C
G
C
When the bankers and the railroads own it all?
Interlude 2
G
F
C
F
C
G
C
G
F
C
F
C
G
C
Verse 5
C
G
Soon the good life was gone
F
Summer's drought and winter's toll
C
G
till we were forced to leave
C
Verse 6
G
I rode the rails
F
for nigh on a year
C
G
Then we settled in a dreary factory
Interlude 3
town
C
G
F
G
C
G
F
G
C
Verse 7
C
G
It's ten cents an hour
F
and it's ten hours a day
G
and you'll never be free
C
Verse 8
G
From the doubts and the fears
F
C
and the life we're livin' here
G
with my family so far from their home
C
Verse 9
G
I once was a farmer
F
and I worked on the land
G
C
sunup to sundown
Verse 10
C
G
But you live by the plow
F
and you die by the same
G
The story it's often been told
Outro 1
C
G
F
C
G
C
G
F
G
C
G
F
C
G
C
G
F
G
C
Farmer's Blues
Blue Highway
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