| If they take away my farm
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| If they pull me off the plough
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| Tell me, who will feed the people
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| Hell, the banker don’t know how
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| It’s all pages in a mystery
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| That he’ll never understand
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| Tell me, who will feed the people
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| If they put me off my land
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| If they call in all my loans
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| If they call the auctioneer
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| Tell me, who will bring the crops in
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| With no farm folks living here
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| Will the banker run the combine
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| Will the agent bale the hay
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| Tell me, who will feed the people
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| If they take my farm away
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| When my great-granddaddy Jakob
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| Ninety-seven years ago
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| Broke this sod behind two oxen
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| Broke his back to make it grow
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| Taught his sons by his example
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| As they taught their sons in turn
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| What this topsoil had to teach him
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| Great-granddaddy tried to learn
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| If they put us on the road
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| If they tell us we must go
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| Who will come to take our places
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| Who’ll know half the things we know
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| Who’ll know every inch of topsoil
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| As it trickles through the hand
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| Tell me, who will feed the people
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| If they put me off my land
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| When my great-granddaddy Jakob
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| Ninety-seven years ago
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| Broke this sod behind two oxen
|
| Broke his back to make it grow
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| Taught his sons by his example
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| As they taught their sons in turn
|
| What this topsoil had to teach him
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| Great-granddaddy tried to learn
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| If they take away my farm
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| If they pull me off the plough
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| Tell me, who will feed the people
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| Hell, the banker don’t know how
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| It’s all pages in a mystery
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| That he’ll never understand
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| Tell me, who will feed the people
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| If they put me off my land
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| It’s all pages in a mystery
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| That he’ll never understand
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| Tell me, who would feed the people
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| If they put me off my land |
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Who Will Feed The People?, artist - Tom Paxton. Album song One Million Lawyers And Other Disasters, in the genre Музыка мира