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she calls: the word-mule! the word-mule! the word-mule!
but he's plowing the field
the word-mule! the word-mule! the word-mule!
she calls: the word-mule! the word-mule! the word-mule!
but he's plowing the field
the word-mule! the word-mule! the word-mule!
she calls: the word-mule! the word-mule! the word-mule!
but he's plowing the field
the word-mule! the word-mule! the word-mule!
she calls: the word-mule! the word-mule! the word-mule!
but he's plowing the field
the word-mule! the word-mule! the word-mule!
she got to get behind the mule
in the morning and plow
she got to get behind the mule
she got to get behind the mule
in the morning and plow
she got to get behind the mule
hard country
looking at the world from the back of a plow
an honest day's work for and honest day's pay
hard country
looking at the world from the back of a plow
an honest day's work for and honest day's pay
innocence undone
peasants turn the plow to man
visions of heaven bring hell to the land
innocence undone
peasants turn the plow to man
visions of heaven bring hell to the land
bind me not to the pasture
chain me not to the plow
set me free to find my calling
bind me not to the pasture
chain me not to the plow
set me free to find my calling
you've not that much at stake
for i have plowed the seas
and smoothed the troubled waters
you've not that much at stake
for i have plowed the seas
and smoothed the troubled waters
it takes so long to let me know
it's plant and reap and plow and sow
but tell me will it grow?
it takes so long to let me know
it's plant and reap and plow and sow
but tell me will it grow?
this what you call a mack eleven
here's two on the way down plow plow
here's four more plow plow plow plow
this what you call a mack eleven
here's two on the way down plow plow
here's four more plow plow plow plow
it starts with one step
plowing out the rows
the bleeding of the rose
it starts with one step
plowing out the rows
the bleeding of the rose
i'm talking hot damn
tearing up some plowed ground
tractor take us round and round
i'm talking hot damn
tearing up some plowed ground
tractor take us round and round
baby
wouldn't it be nice just to just plow through life
fall in love
baby
wouldn't it be nice just to just plow through life
fall in love
baby
wouldn't it be nice just to just plow through life
fall in love
baby
wouldn't it be nice just to just plow through life
fall in love
start
i got a crib full of corn and a turnin' plow
but the ground's too wet for the hopper now. got a cultivator and a doubletree
start
i got a crib full of corn and a turnin' plow
but the ground's too wet for the hopper now. got a cultivator and a doubletree
start
i got a crib full of corn and a turnin' plow
but the ground's too wet for the hopper now. got a cultivator and a doubletree
start
i got a crib full of corn and a turnin' plow
but the ground's too wet for the hopper now. got a cultivator and a doubletree
there was a camp town man
used to plow and sing
and he loved that mule and the mule loved him
there was a camp town man
used to plow and sing
and he loved that mule and the mule loved him
hooked on the feeling of a summer in the south
hooked on the dust flying up from a plow
hooked on them blue eyes
hooked on the feeling of a summer in the south
hooked on the dust flying up from a plow
hooked on them blue eyes
we're throwing boots on our feet
we break a plow only one who can fix it is me
we don't get paid for sittin' in cold ac
we're throwing boots on our feet
we break a plow only one who can fix it is me
we don't get paid for sittin' in cold ac
my driftin' memory goes back to the spring of '43
when i was just a child in momma's arms. my daddy plowed the ground and promised someday we would leave
this run-down mortgaged oklahoma farm.
my driftin' memory goes back to the spring of '43
when i was just a child in momma's arms. my daddy plowed the ground and promised someday we would leave
this run-down mortgaged oklahoma farm.