Key: D
Introduction:
D G D
A man with forty acres plowed and planted
A D
Can't send no fourteen year-old boy to no school
D G D
The only thing I learned in the years I worked on my daddy's farm
A D
Was, "Son, you better get them crops in when it turns cool."
In the magazines, I saw the naked women
E A E
I met a nice girl and she said I was her baby
B E
She let me go and would never tell me why
E A E
I learned what it means to be somebody's baby
B E
They let you lie in your bed by yourself and cry
The miles were good but the mileage is turnin' my hair gray