I had to leave the farm when I was 15
Too many mouths for what we had
And I bummed my way to the coast
But things out there were just as bad
The wind blows the topsoil to the sea
What’s left is barren and grey
I came home to make my stand behind the plow
And odd jobs when the times got tight
But the work faces me every morning
And the worry haunts me all the night
The wind blows the topsoil to the sea
What’s left is barren and grey
I can’t bear to see kids starving on TV
Poor folks can’t afford enough to eat
Grain rots in storage for the price
The market has no worries for what’s right
The wind blows the topsoil to the sea
What’s left is barren and grey
When I’m dead the kids’ll dump my ashes
Into the oil of our Allis ‘53
And I’ll live just as long as that tractor
And die when the rust carries me to the sea
The wind blows the topsoil to the sea
What’s left is barren and grey
These crops have gone from green to brown
And my hair’s gone from brown to grey
And the sun will surely shine upon these fields
And I will kneel to pray for rain today
The wind blows the topsoil to the sea
What’s left is barren and grey
Farmer
Charlie Parr
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Lyrics by Charlie Parr
1890 1922 Blues 1922 Blues (Live) Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down All the Good Times Are Past and Gone (Feat. Emily ... Badger Barn Swallows At Twilight Blessed Be the Name (Feat. Emily Parr & Alan Sparh... Coffee's Gone Cold Come Along & See Cropduster Daniel in the Lion's Den (Feat. Emily Parr) Don't Send Your Child to War East Virginia Blues (Feat. Four Mile Portage, Alan... Empty Out Your Pockets Far Cry from Fargo Farther Along (Feat. Emily Parr & Alan Sparhawk) For The Drunkard's Mother Frank Miller Blues Funeral Road Blues God Moves On the Water God Moves On the Water (Feat. Emily Parr & Four Mi... Gospel Plow (Feat. Emily Parr) Groundhog Day Blues I Dreamed I Saw Jesse James Last Night I Dreamed I Saw Paul Bunyan Last Night I Dreamed I Saw Paul Bunyan Last Night (Pt. 2) I Was Lost Last Night I Wish I Were A Mole In The Ground Jefferson Street Express Jesus At The Kenmore Jesus is a Hobo Jesus Met the Woman At the Well (Feat. Emily Parr ... Jesus on the Mainline Last Freight Out of Asheville Last Payday At Coal Creek Mastodon Midnight Has Come & Gone Migrant Boxcar Train Motorcycle Blues Mule Rider My Wife Left Me Nowhere…Fast Ode to a New Dealer On Marrying a Woman with an Uncontrollable Temper Over the Red Cedar Poor Lazarus (Feat. Alan Sparkhawk & Mimi Parker) Posessed By the Devil Remember Me If I Forget Reverend Eviction's Blues Riding Mower Blues South Of Austin, North Of Lyle Temperance River Blues The B&J Ain't Nothin' But a Hole in the Ground To A Scrapyard Bus Stop True Friends Up Country Blues V8 Ford Blues Pt 2 Walk Around My Bedside Warmin' By the Devil's Fire Westbound Rattler When First Unto This Country Where You Gonna Be (When The Good Lord Calls You H... Who Will Deliver Poor Me? (Feat. Emily Parr) Wreck Of The Bernard K.
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