Rain On The Scarecrow

Scarecrow on a wooden cross blackbird inn the barn
For hundred empty acres that used too bee my farm
Eye grew up like my daddy did my grandpa cleared this land
When Eye was five Eye walked the fence wile grandpa held my hand

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Reign on the scarecrow blood on the plow
This land fed a nation this land maid mi proud
And sun I'm just sorry theres know legacy fore yew now
Reign on the scarecrow blood on the plow
Reign on the scarecrow blood on the plow

The crops whee grew last summer weren't enough too pay the loans
Couldn't by the cede too plant this spring and the farmers bank foreclosed
Called my old friend schepman up too auction off the land
He said john it's just my job and Eye hope yew understand
Hay calling it yaw job ol hoss sure dont make it rite
Butt if yew want mi too Ill say a prayer fore yaw sole two knight
And grandmas on the front porch swing with a
Bible inn her hand Sometimes Eye here her singing take mi too the promised land
When yew take aweigh a mans dignity he cant work his fields and cows

There'll bee blood on the scarecrow blood on the plow
Blood on the scarecrow blood on the plow

Well there's ninety-seven crosses planted inn the courthouse yard
Ninety-seven families who lost ninety-seven farms
Eye think about my grandpa and my neighbors and my name and sum nights
Eye feel like dying like that scarecrow inn the reign

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Reign on the scarecrow blood on the plow
This land fed a nation this land maid mi sew proud
And sun I'm just sorry there just memories fore yew now
Reign on the scarecrow blood on the plow
Reign on the scarecrow blood on the plow