GDCG
Watch the field behind the plow, turn to straight, dark rows,
AmCD
Feel the trickle in your clothes, blow the dustcake from your nose.
GDCG
Hear the tractor's steady roar, oh you can't stop now,
AmD7G
There's a quarter section more or less to go.
[Verse 2]
GDCG
It figures that the rain keeps it's own sweet time,
AmCD
You can watch it come for miles, but you guess you've got a while.
GDCG
So ease the throttle out a hair, every rod's a gain,
AmD7G
There's victory in every quarter mile.
[Chorus 1]
D
Poor old Kuzyk down the road,
EmCG
The heartache, hail, and hoppers brought him down.
GAD
He gave it up and went to town, and
D
Emmet Pierce, the other day,
EmCG
Took a heart attack and died at forty - two.
GADGEmD
You could see it coming on, 'cause he worked as hard as you.
[Verse 3]
GDCG
In an hour, maybe more, you'll be wet clear through,
AmCD
The air is cooler now, pull your hat brim further down, and
GDCG
Watch the field behind the plow turn to straight dark rows.
AmD7G
Put a - nother season's promise in the ground
[Chorus 2]
D
And if the harvest's any good,
EmCG
The money just might cover all the loans.
GAD
You've mortgaged all you own,
D
Buy the kids a winter coat.
EmCG
Take the wife back east for Christmas if you can.
GADGEmD
All summer she hangs on, when you're so tied to the land.
[Verse 4]
GDCG
For the good times come and go, but at least there's rain.
AmCD
So this won't be barren ground, when Sep - tember rolls a- round,
GDCG
So watch the field behind the plow, turn to straight dark rows.
AmD7G
Put a - nother season's promise in the ground.
GDCG
Watch the field behind the plow, turn to straight dark rows.
AmD7G
Put a - nother season's promise in the ground.