Borrowed Ground-John Schumann

[ti:Borrowed Ground] [ar:John Schumann] [al:Portrait - The Very Best Of John Schumann] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Borrowed Ground - John Schumann [00:16.21]The wind out here's like a cross-cut saw [00:19.28] [00:19.90]The land is red and green [00:22.09] [00:23.66]The summer sun's hanging in a pale blue sky [00:26.84] [00:27.46]The air is sharp and clean [00:29.64] [00:31.05]There's a frozen moment in waving grain [00:34.34] [00:35.05]Food for a hungry world [00:37.24] [00:38.73]But we can't clothe ourselves with the check [00:42.25]We can barely feed ourselves [00:44.76] [00:46.26]At night I lie awake and worry [00:48.47] [00:49.98]And the debts go round and round [00:52.34] [00:53.77]Furrows in my night time forehead [00:55.93] [00:57.75]And furrows on borrowed ground [00:59.48] [01:06.93]There's an old galv shed with a laughing lean [01:10.03] [01:10.66]It's kept the tractor dry [01:12.94] [01:14.23]I remember the day that we knocked it up [01:18.12]With stringy bark and fencing wire [01:20.53] [01:21.96]The earthen floor's been beaten hard [01:25.10] [01:25.75]Where the rain hasn't cut a path [01:28.00] [01:29.64]I'm frightened to look [01:30.96]Cause I'm beaten too [01:32.55] [01:33.10]And the mice run through the chaff [01:35.57] [01:37.01]And I lie on my bed staring into the red [01:40.14] [01:40.78]And the overdraft won't come down [01:42.98] [01:44.63]And it's hard work keeping your family together [01:47.85] [01:48.41]Living on borrowed ground [01:50.58] [01:57.77]I don't blame your brother son [02:00.68] [02:01.46]For moving into the town [02:03.72] [02:05.37]It's no place here for a bright young man [02:08.32] [02:09.07]Living on borrowed ground [02:11.22] [02:40.90]And I watch all the programs on the ABC [02:43.88] [02:44.70]After the sun's gone down [02:46.94] [02:48.52]Lucy Broad's talking on "Countrywide" [02:51.72] [02:52.40]Talking about borrowed ground [02:54.46] [03:01.71]We don't own this place anymore [03:04.25] [03:05.41]And I don't know how or why [03:07.64] [03:08.90]There's some money-men coming from Sydney [03:11.42] [03:11.97]Who tell me it's only a matter of time [03:15.10] [03:16.65]Well I hope they can read the seasons [03:19.04] [03:20.50]And they're not here just to muck around [03:22.61] [03:23.73]'Cause they've still got to feed a nation [03:26.62] [03:27.51]They've got to feed them from borrowed ground [03:30.25] [03:36.08]They still live on a borrowed ground [03:38.66] [03:43.55]And the other part haven't found [03:46.32] [03:58.69]They got to feed them from borrowed ground [04:01.22] [04:13.67]And the other part haven't found