Artist/Band:
Old Crow Medicine Show
Lyrics for Song: We Don't Grow Tobacco
Lyrics for Album: Carry Me Back [2012]
Hardest work that ever I done,
Bent beneath that burning sun
haulin' that tobacco around to cure.
I would chop that wicked weed
Till our hands and fingers bleed
Working like a mule, maybe more
We've been farming on this land,
Since eighteen hundred ten
Through flood and drought and pestilence and war
Now I sure am sad to say
That I've lived to see this day
That we don't grow tobacco around here no more!
Chorus:
We don't grow, we don't grow
Oh, it's still the only work we'll ever know
We don't grow, we don't grow
We don't grow tobacco around here no more!
Grandpa told me this, I know
Change is coming, it won't be slow
Knocking just like a thunder at the door
Battered fields are all around
Empty barns just fallin' down
With ... comin' up through the floor
Once we growed it by the pound
Now the kids all moved to town
And all that's left are elderly and poor
Now I sure am sad to say
That I lived to see this day
That we don't grow tobacco around here no more
Chorus:
We don't grow, we don't grow
Oh, it's still the only work we'll ever know
Well, we don't grow, we don't grow
We don't grow tobacco around here no more!
Whooo, yes I sure am sad to say
This way of life has gone away
Now that we don't grow tobacco around here no more
Well, no, we don't grow tobacco around here no more!
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