| Oh, the sun rolls down, big as a miracle
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| And fades from the Midwest Sky
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| And the corn and the trees wave in the breeze
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| As if to say goodbye
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| Oh, my grandfather stood right here as a younger man
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| In nineteen and forty three
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| And with the sweat and his tears, the rain and the years
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| He grew life from the soil and seed
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| Oh I’m goin' down to the dreaming fields
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| But what will be my harvest now
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| Where every tear that falls on a memory
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| Feels like rain on the rusted plow
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| Rain on the rusted plow
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| And these fields they dream of wheat in the summertime
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| Grandchildren running free
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| And the bales of hay at the end of the day
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| And the scarecrow that just scared me Now the houses they grow like weeds in a flower bed
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| This morning the silo fell
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| Seems the only way a man can live off the land these days
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| Is to buy and sell
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| So I’m goin' down to the dreaming fields
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| But what will be my harvest now
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| Where every tear that falls on a memory
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| Feels like rain on the rusted plow
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| Rain on the rusted plow
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| Like the rain on the roof on the porch by the kitchen
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| Where as my grandmother sings, I can hear if I listen
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| Running down, running down to the end of the world I loved
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| This will be my harvest now
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| And the sun rolls down, big as a miracle
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| And fades in the Midwest sky
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| And the corn and the trees wave in the breeze
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| As if to say goodbye
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| As if to say goodbye |