Key: A minor
Verse 1
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This is a song about a man
have very much room
grow different things
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they will share what they've grown
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Two different plants with the
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The same soil sustains them both.
They have equal claim.
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Peppers and tomatoes
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And my neighbors all around me
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They grow beans and potatoes
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Cabbages and onions
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in this village where we dwell
Later in the year
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we will bring wine to the table
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Bring wine to the table
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Like my father did before me
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And his father did before him
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And his father did before him
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we will reap what we have sown
I can wash the dust
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But this earth is in my bones
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Moving to our village
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With young soldiers ill at ease
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Distrustful and uncertain
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Distrustful and uncertain
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And all smoking constantly
My neighbors say, don't worry
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For you are one of us
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You are one of us, my friend
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An d it will not happen here
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When I bring wine to the table
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They are sitting drinking beer
Last night the hand of friendship
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fell heavy on my shoulder,
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heavy on my shoulder
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as I turned away to go.
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And singing words to song
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s that I didn't know
I can wash the dust
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But this earth is in my bones
This morning my wife told me
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she'd been to church on Sunday,
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she'd been to church on Sunday,
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our children were baptized there,
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but it was just a bleasy old ones,
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it was just a bleasy old ones,
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and I don't know what to say.
I can wash the dust off of
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But this earth is in my bones
Tonight as dark as falling,
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tending to my garden,
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I'm tending to my garden
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And the crop that I have grown,
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But soon I'll start the en gine,
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soon I'll start the engine
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Wake the children and be gone
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it's hidden in the cabin,
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it's hidden in the cabin
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And the evening's growing in chill,
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If someone tries to stop me,
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if someone tries to stop me
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I am ready now to kill
And off my skin and on my
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But this earth is in my bones
I'm watering my garden
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When I smell the cigarette smoke
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Smell the cigarette smoke
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and I see the glint of rifles
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but I cannot see the faces
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but I recognize the voices
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that say you must come with us
Yes, it's time for this.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
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