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Workingman's Prayer
Ed Bruce

Lord, put your hand to the handle of my hoe

Let me make another step, help me go another row

Even know I'm tired, got to try to make a dollar

For my wife and kids, living over in the holler

Every morning I get up and look at the sky

And I know if I'm gonna work lord, the sun's gotta shine

But I'm gettin old before my time, broke down body and mind

And sometimes when I don't see a rain cloud floatin by

Lord I just feel like dyin

My pa used to tell me when I was a boy

Son them big white fleely clouds ain't nothin

But the cottonfields of the Lord

So after all these years of plantin and choppin and pickin

If I do get to the heaven lord like I've been tryin

And them clouds be what pa said so

Lord, I hope your angels know how to use a hoe

Lord, put your hand to the handle of my hoe

Let me make another step, help me go another row

Even know I'm tired, got to try to make a dollar

For my wife and kids, living over in the holler

The boss plane came down at the house a few days before christmas last year

He asked what me and the missis had planned christmas day

I kinda laughed and like we could have plans, we just hadn't it settle on that way

He asked to missis we come up and cook christmas dinner for him and his

Said to bring the whole family and join in the tri manse

Well, we went up to big house Lord, and I never saw such an evening

And the boss's wife give all my kids brand new shoes to warm their feets

And I guess maybe I cried a little

And that night, when I got home, I got down on my knees

And I thanked to you lord, remember

Lord, put your hand to the handle of my hoe

Let me make another step, help me go another row

Even know I'm tired, got to try to make a dollar

For my wife and kids, living over in the holler

And then there was a time my wife said You just got to slow down, man

I said, honey, I got make it while I can

So I worked three days, Lord, without stopping

For Miss Simmons down the road, had wood needed chopping

Sam Fallow over east, had hay needed bailing

Old man Turner wanted his holler fixed before time spring planting

The fourth day I was down on my back, Lord

But I got it all done before the sky turned black

Now, I ain't complaining Lord, but sometimes when you see me stumble

Reach down and lift the hand on my sack

Make my hammer a little lighter, and my dollar a little stronger

Lord, Make my days a little shorter and my nights a little longer

And if there's anything

I can do for you, Lord

Let me know what's to be done

And I will be done

Well, goodnight, Lord


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