On That Farm Back Home Lyrics

Pounding staples, fixing fence

Straightening out the ones all bent

He's moving forward but he's looking back

Sees he followed in his Daddy's tracks

It was 1963

He never thought that he would be here

Doing just the thing his old man did

But he's got a wife, and there's three small kids

So he traded in his favorite traveling boots

For that chance that they could grow some solid roots

In that same land where he once had grown his own

On that farm back home

And never once did he think twice

Or see the choice that he'd made as a sacrifice

He knew in this life you reap what you've sown

And for every dream that he saw fade away

A new one came to take it's place

That was stronger 'cause he never dreamt alone

On that farm back home

The years slipped quickly through his grasp

Before he knew it he'd watched his last son

Heading on his way out through the door

Just like he'd done all those years before

He'd heard the call that Uncle Sam

Was looking for a few good men and

Something told him that he had to go

Though what he'd find there he didn't know

But he traded in the safety of his roots

And he polished up their standard issue boots

To defend the country and the life he'd known

On that farm back home.

And never once did he think twice

Or see the choice that he'd made as a sacrifice

He knew in this life you reap what you've sown

And for every dream that he saw fade away

A new one came to take it's place

That was stronger 'cause he never dreamt alone

On that farm back home

A few years later down the road

That youngest son returned

With the battle scars he carried

And the lessons he had learned

And the dream of doing just the thing

That his own old man had done

So he could pass that dream on down to his own son

And never once did he think twice

Or see the choice that he'd made as a sacrifice

He knew in this life you reap what you've sown

And for every dream that he saw fade away

A new one came to take it's place

That was stronger 'cause he never dreamt alone

On that farm back home

On that farm back home

On that farm back home