[Intro]

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[Verse 1]

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Watch the field behind the plow turn to straight, dark rows

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Feel the trickle in your clothes, blow the dust cake from your nose

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Hear the tractor's steady roar, Oh you can't stop now

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There's a quarter section more or less to go



[Verse 2]

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And it figures that the rain keeps its own sweet time

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You can watch it come for miles, but you guess you've got a while

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So ease the throttle out a hair, every rod's a gain

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And there's victory in every quarter mile



[Bridge 1]

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Poor old Kuzyk down the road

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The heartache, hail and hoppers brought him down

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He gave it up and went to town

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And Emmett Pierce the other day

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Took a heart attack and died at forty two

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You could see it coming on 'cause he worked as hard as you



[Verse 3]

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In an hour, maybe more, you'll be wet clear through

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The air is cooler now, pull your hat brim further down

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And watch the field behind the plow turn to straight, dark rows

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Put another season's promise in the ground



[Interlude]

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[Bridge 2]

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And if the harvest's any good

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The money just might cover all the loans

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You've mortgaged all you own

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Buy the kids a winter coat

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Take the wife back east for Christmas if you can

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All summer she hangs on when you're so tied to the land



[Verse 4]

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For the good times come and go, but at least there's rain

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So this won't be barren ground when September rolls around

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So watch the field behind the plow turn to straight, dark rows

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Put another season's promise in the ground



[Outro]

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Watch the field behind the plow turn to straight, dark rows

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Put another season's promise in the ground



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