Tono: G
Introducción:
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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 dustcake 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
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And it figures that the rain keeps it's 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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There's victory in every quarter mile
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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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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
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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 a-nother season's promise in the ground
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And if the harvest's any good
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The money might just cover all the loans
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You've mortgaged all you own
... 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
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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 Sep-tember rolls a-round
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And watch the field behind the plow, turn to straight dark rows
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Put a-nother season's promise in the ground