Key: A
Introduction:
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My sweet mother gets up so early in the morning
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She turns on the stove and she makes a pot of coffee
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My daddy fills his tractor up with diesel to plant the corn
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And that's how it was on the day that I was born
Verse
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Well the days they went by and the bins filled up with grain
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My mother's brother died on a motorcycle in the rain
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The town got too big for its britches and the government it came
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And now it will never be the same
Chorus
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No one moves away with no money
They just do what they can
F#m A
To live in the heart of America
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Getting by on their own two hands
You can pray to anybody's Jesus and be a hardworking man
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But at the end of the day, if the rain it don't rain
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We just do what we can
Solo
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Verse
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Some time back in eighty-sixwhen big banks took the throne
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They asked about every local farmer try to dry his own corn
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But the men in the suits had a bigger plan
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Than to let it be our own
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When the crops came in that spring, they were blown
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And Neil and Willie tried so hard and battles they have gone
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But that was still long after the bigger war had been won
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No one was there to save the wheat and the cattle at my home
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They took every field my family owned
Chorus
E
No one moves away with no money
They just do what they can
F#m A
To live in the heart of America
E
Getting by on their own two hands
You can pray to anybody's Jesus and be a hardworking man
D
But at the end of the day, if the rain it don't rain, if the bank it don't break
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We just do what we can
E A
You just do what you can
Outro
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