Key: C major•
Intro 1
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C
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Bb
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Verse 1
and a pick- axe
And a hundred miles square
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My old horse is weary but sincerely
of the agriculture rumble,
and scrape the weeds
Till I succeed in seeing cabbage
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C
growing through
Verse 2
and I'm digging,
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Now I'm a farmer, and I'm digging,
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digging, digging, digging, digging
Verse 3
C
and grew a crop of corn
eye can see
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G
Near enough to feed New
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York till 1973
Cultivation is my station and the nation
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I watch as dumpertrucks
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Tip New York's corn flakes in the sea
Verse 4
and I'm digging,
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C
digging, digging, digging, digging
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C
digging, digging, digging, digging
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It's alarming how charming
it is to be a- farming
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How calming and
Verse 5
C
Now look here son
The right thing to say
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C
Isn't necessarily what you want to say
The right thing to do
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Isn't necessarily what you want to do
The right things to grow
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C
Ain't necessarily what
you want to grow
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Your own happiness
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Doesn't necessarily teach
Verse 6
you what you want to know
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so's the horse
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And my hands are deeply grained
Because I'm paid on trust to leave
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my square of cornfield bare
Verse 7
it is to be a- farming
How calming and balming the
Verse 8
effect of the air
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb C F G
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