Lady Farmer Lyrics

From the front porch deck off of route fifteen

She was the boss in the world of everything she'd see

Big crap shoot in a hundred degrees

Just to make half a living from a farm

Well her husband died back ninety-two

Left a note half paid and accounts overdue

Took a lot more with him than he ought to

And they say you can't take nothing

A whole lotta work for a little bit of pay

The more you get the more they take away

No use saying nothing when there's nothing to say

Tough getting by on your own

It's a roulette wheel full of bankrupt signs

Strong crop of corn with a weak bottom line

Little bit of laughing and a whole lot of tears

Half a living farmers make out over the years

There's a mule and a plough rusted over with age

Pigs in the pen and a chickens in the cage

Since the fox got to em well it's hard to gauge

If it's even worth keeping at all

Well the man left no one to oversee

And she's dead too back in two ought three

Left the farm to the N.A.A.C.P.

Cause the mountains were too hard to climb

A whole lotta work for a little bit of pay

The more you get the more they take away

No use saying nothing when there's nothing to say

Tough getting by on your own

It's a roulette wheel full of bankrupt signs

Strong crop of corn with a weak bottom line

Little bit of laughing and a whole lot of tears

Half a living farmers make out over the years