We Don't Grow Tobacco

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!