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Who Will Feed The People?

Who Will Feed The People? easy guitar chords by Tom Paxton

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Fret 4

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  • Am

  • Dm

  • G

  • C

  • D

  • Am

  • Dm

  • G

  • C

  • D

  • Verse 1
    Am
    Dm
    G
    C
    Am
    Dm

    If they
    G
    C
    Dm

    take away my farm,
    G
    C

    if they pull me off the plow,
    Am
    Dm

    tell me who will feed the people,
    G
    C

    the hell the banker don't know how
    Am
    Dm

    it's all pages in a mystery
    G

    that he'll never understand
    C
    Am
    Dm

    tell me who will feed the people
    G
    C

    if they put me off my land
    Dm

    if they're calling all my loans
    G
    C

    if they call the auctioneer
    Am
    Dm

    Tell me who will bring the crops in
    G
    C

    with no farm folks living here?
    Am
    Dm

    Will the bank run the combine?
    G
    C

    Will the agent bail the hay?
    Am

    Tell me who will be the people
    Dm
    G
    C

    if they take my farm away?
    Am

    When my great -granddaddy Jacob,
    D

    ninety -seven years ago,
    G

    Broke this sod behind to oxen,

    broke his back to make it grow,
    C

    Taught his sons by his example,
    Dm
    G
    C

    as they taught their sons in turn,
    Am

    What this topsoil had to teach him,

    D
    G

    my great -granddaddy tried to learn.
    C
    Dm

    If they put us on the road,
    G
    C

    if they tell us we must go,
    Am

    Who will come to take our
    Dm

    places?
    G

    Who'll know half the things
    C

    we know?
    Am
    Dm

    Who'll know every inch of topsoil
    G
    C

    as it trickles through the hand?
    Am

    Tell me who will be the people
    Dm
    G
    C
    Dm
    G
    C
    Am

    if they put me off my land?
    Dm
    G
    C
    Am
    Dm
    G
    C

    Am
    Dm
    G
    C

    Am

    When my great -granddaddy, J .K.
    D

    Ninety -seven years ago,
    G

    broke this side behind two oxen,

    broke it back to make it grow.
    C

    Taught his sons by his example,
    Dm
    G
    C

    as they taught their sons in turn.
    Am

    What this topsoil had to teach him,

    D
    G

    great -granddaddy tried to learn.
    C
    Dm

    If they take away my farm,
    G

    if they pull me off the plow
    C
    Am
    Dm

    Tell me who will feed the people,
    G

    hell, think I don't know how
    C
    Am
    Dm

    It's all pages in a mys tery
    G

    that you'll never understand
    C
    Am

    Tell me who will feed the people
    Dm
    G

    if they put me off my land
    C
    Am

    And it's our fate to tell a mystery
    Dm
    G

    that he'll never understand
    C
    Am

    Tell me who will be the people
    Dm
    G
    C

    if they put me off my land

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