Growing Trade

Growing Trade Lyrics

Song Growing Trade
Artist Levon Helm
Album Electric Dirt
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[00:08.940] I worked the land to raise a family
[00:13.310] Til I was weary to the bone
[00:18.760] But hard labor never bothered me
[00:22.200] Lord it's all I've ever known
[00:26.370] Too many seasons of calamity
[00:30.670] And too much interest on the loan
[00:36.060] I'm half the size that I used to be
[00:39.950] And half of that is stone
[00:44.760] The crops ain't worth the seeding10 will only get you 5
[00:53.410] The live stock I'm a feeding
[00:56.720] I can hardly keep 'em alive
[01:00.970] I gotta do what I can to survive
[01:07.710] I know the law won't be forgiving
[01:12.200] But that'll be the choice I made
[01:16.100] I used to farm for a living
[01:21.010] And now I'm in the growing trade
[01:33.800] The summer beauty of the cotton field
[01:37.950] Was like a view from Heaven's door
[01:43.300] My granddaddy said that harvest time
[01:46.590] Was what the good Lord made us for
[01:50.790] I guess he'd wonder where's the dignity
[01:55.240] In a crop you raise to burn
[02:00.310] But this land is my legacy
[02:03.730] I got nowhere else to turn
[02:09.160] Shotgun on my shoulder
[02:12.450] Where a tote sack oughta be
[02:17.590] The thieves are getting bolder
[02:20.750] And the feds may be watching me
[02:24.990] I gotta quit this eventually
[02:31.580] I know the law won't be forgiving
[02:36.000] But that'll be the choice I made
[02:40.010] I used to farm for a living
[02:44.890] But now I'm in the growing trade
[02:50.840] Helicopters in the distance
[02:55.090] Coming closer everyday
[02:59.510] They're gonna meet some resistance
[03:03.360] Aint no price I wouldn't pay
[03:08.590] There won't be any difference
[03:11.900] When they take it all away
[03:16.930] Between a cot in the jail house
[03:20.240] And a bed beneath the clay
[03:24.500] I guess there's nothing to do now but pray
[03:30.970] I know the law won't be forgiving
[03:35.630] But that'll be the choice I made
[03:39.560] I used to farm for a living
[03:44.300] And now I'm in the growing trade
[03:50.110] I used to farm for a living
[03:54.340] And now I'm in the growing trade
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