Name: The Farmer
Duration: 4 min 46 s
Channel: Stephen D. Butler
Description: "The Farmer" is a song by Stephen D Butler. A song about a guy who's just trying to continue the generational history of the land he grew up on.

The Farmer

Stephen D Butler

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A song about a guy who's just trying to continue the generational history of the land he grew up on.

Stephen D Butler

Songwriter, edgy, country, simple, raw, honest, life, love, tragic, funny, humorous, death, magic,

My band is very small. My friend Rob Robinson played the organ and programed the drum machine. The rest is me.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Alternative Country

Charts

Peak #52

Peak in subgenre #15

Author

Stephen D. Butler

Rights

2006

Uploaded

June 09, 2008

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.3 MB • 96 kbps • 4:46

Story behind the song

I got the inspiration for this song from a book by Dr. Ferrell Sams called "Run With The Horsemen".  He tells a brief story about the grandfather who somehow gets into financial trouble and mysteriously comes up with the money to save the land.  "The source of the money was never clearly established" or something like that.

Lyrics

The Farmer
Stephen D. Butler ©2006 All Rights Reserved
PO Box 700
Felda, FL 33930
Steve51753@yahoo.com
(239)810-2821
Country


Verse 1
     My dad was a farmer, he lived off the land
     He spoke from his heart and he worked with his hands
     Up before daylight, dinner at noon
     Watched over by the full harvest moon

     He taught me to love and cherish the land
     To thank God above
     And don’t stop the work till it’s done
     And never cheat anyone
     He said “I’ll help you make it.  It belongs to you, son”


Chorus
	And we’ll save up our money for seed
	And all the things we’ll need
	We’ll plant all this land and we’ll make a stand
	And next year we’ll do it again
	
	Verse 2
      When Dad passed away the farm came to me
      I had some good years, at least two or three
      Up before daylight, dinner at noon
      Watched over by the full harvest moon


      And I fell in love and she took my hand
      We promised each other 
      We won’t stop the work till it’s done
      We’ll never cheat anyone
      She said “I’ll help you make it and I’ll give you a son


Chorus


Verse 3			       
       But the prices got low, the drought was severe
       The bank set a date for the land auctioneer
       Up before daylight, dinner at noon
       I left home by the full harvest moon

       And on the last day I showed up with the money
       She said “Where’d you get it?
       Don’t ask me honey, it’s done
       I didn’t cheat anyone
       But I won’t let ‘em take it. It belongs to our son


Chorus

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