Harold Wilson is my name, son
Why don't you sit a spell
I live right here on the Fergusson Road
At the Paradise Motel
And though you do not know me
There's a story I like to tell
It's a story that I'm sure you know well
It's a story that I'm sure you know well
I had me a place on Thunder Ridge
In a doomsday shack
My wife had left and took the kids
A couple of years back
And I spent most of my mornings
Thinking about that
And my afternoons trying to figure out what to plant
I spent my afternoons trying to figure out what to plant
Did you ever try to farm a farm
With a pick and a shovel
Try to put a field into corn
Just wouldn't grow nothin'
Starin' down across the town
You wonder why I even bother
When up the road there's a vacant room
Climate control and colour
And you could stay there by the month for a hundred dollars
And you could stay there by the month for a hundred dollars
There wasn't money in corn
And there wasn't money in beans
They took my telephone, shut off my electricity
Then a letter came in the mail
Saying there's taxes owed by me
If I was ever going to pay
Well, I had three weeks
If I was ever going to pay
Well, I had three weeks
Did you ever try to farm a farm
With a pick and a shovel
Try to put a field into corn
Just wouldn't grow nothin'
Starin' down across the town
You wonder why I even bother
When up the road there's a vacant room
Climate control and colour
And you could stay there by the month for a hundred dollars
And you could stay there by the month for a hundred dollars
Well, they sold that farm to some fool for ten cents on the dollar
I saw him out there last week, I was on my way to visit my daughter
And that son of a gun was out there
Trying to hook a windmill up to water
When he heard me laugh, well, he turned and I swear he hollered
When he heard me laugh, well, he turned, I swear he hollered
Did you ever try to farm a farm
With a pick and a shovel
Try to put a field into corn
Just wouldn't grow nothin'
Starin' down across the town
You wonder why I even bother
When up the road there's a vacant room
Climate control and colour
And you could stay there by the month for a hundred dollars
And you could stay there by the month for a hundred dollars
Now the government cheques come down the pike
As regular as rain
And I sit outside most nights
'Cept when the June bugs drive me in
Harold Wilson is my name, son
Why don't you sit a spell
I live right here on the Fergusson Road
At the Paradise Motel
Harold Wilson
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105 105 Alcohol And Pills Bailin' Again Big Hair Bullets Car Careless Carmelita Codeine Cold War Crashin' & Burnin' Crazier Crowds Cryin' Yet Cumberland County Dancin' On The Bar Do You Love Me Now Don't You Try To Change My Mind Drinking Too Much Drive In Movie Dynamite and Whiskey Freight Train Go Out And Plough Gone Too Long He's A Good Dog Here's The Keys How's Ernie I Like Trains I Shot Your Dog I Wanna Buy Your Truck I Would Indian Motorcycles Jerico Joe Just Dreamin' Kansas Last Six Dollars Little Buffalo Rock Little Lost Livin' Out On The Road Lucille Makin' Whiskey Milly's Cafe Old Coach Driver Old John Deere Pistons And Rifles Pretty Good Guy Rainbow Rebecca Street Rocky The Cowboy Rodeo Boy Rodeo Rose Shallow Ship Silhouettes Sliver of the Moon Soda Machine Some Roads Spookin' The Horses Summer Is Over Summerlea Sunflowers Sweaburg General Store Take Your Things The Highway Callin' The Rains The Rocket Thinking Thirty Years Of Farming Time To Get A Gun Tired Tricks Wate Rin The Fuel White Rose White Trash Wilder Than Her Yellow Barley Straw
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