Key: A major
Intro 1
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F#m
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A
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A
B
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Verse 1
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know that we got trouble in the fields
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A
Bankers swarm like locusts out there
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turning away our years
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A
silver in the rain
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A
Leave our pockets full and our thin,
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F#m
Have you seen the folk s in line
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A
downtown at the station?
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A
They're all buying their tickets out,
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talking the Great Depression
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fifty years ago
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They stood out in these empty fields,
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dust as deep as snow
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B
And all this trouble in our fields,
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They'll never take our native soil
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B
But if we sell that new John Deere,
You'll be the mule,
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F#m
I'll be the plow,
Come August time,
G#m
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A
we'll work it out,
There's still a lot of love
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F#m
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here in these troubled fields.
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B
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F#m
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A
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F#m
There's a book up on the shelf
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about the dusk old days
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There's a little bit of you, a little bit of me
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in the photos of every day
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and they rest upon our shoulder
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They never want this rain to fall
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or the weather to get colder
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B
And all this trouble in our field,
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They'll never take our native soil
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B
But if we sell that new John Deere
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A
We work best for all the sweat tears
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we'll work it out
There's still a lot of love
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in these troubled years
You be the mule, I'll be the plow
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we'll work it out
There's still a lot of love,
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here in these troubled feet
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F#m
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F#m
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in these troubled feet you
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ChordsE F#m A B G#m
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