Heart of America-Margo Price

[ti:Heart of America] [ar:Margo Price] [al:All American Made] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Heart of America - Margo Price [00:14.29]My sweet mother gets up so early in the morning [00:18.86] [00:19.42]She turns on the stove and she makes a pot of coffee [00:24.98]My daddy fills his tractor up with diesel to plant the corn [00:29.79]And that's how it was on the day that I was born [00:34.33] [00:37.88]Well the days they went by and the bins filled up with grain [00:42.18] [00:43.08]My mother's brother died on a motorcycle in the rain [00:47.27] [00:48.08]The town got too big for its britches and the government it came [00:52.82] [00:53.40]And now it will never be the same [00:55.82] [00:59.13]No one moves away with no money [01:01.68]They just do what they can [01:03.96]To live in the heart of America [01:06.31]Getting by on their own two hands [01:09.23]You can pray to anybody's Jesus [01:11.91]And be a hardworking man [01:13.56] [01:14.26]But at the end of the day if the rain it don't rain [01:18.54] [01:19.14]We just do what we can [01:22.53] [01:39.70]Some time back in eighty six [01:42.39]When big banks took the throne [01:44.04] [01:44.70]They asked about every local farmer try to dry his own corn [01:49.28] [01:49.90]But the men in the suits had a bigger plan [01:52.68]Than to let it be our own [01:54.81]When the crops came in that spring they were blown [01:58.32] [02:00.25]And Neil and Willie tried so hard [02:02.91]And battles they have gone [02:04.55] [02:05.77]But that was still long after the bigger war had been won [02:09.89] [02:10.90]No one was there to save the wheat and the cattle at my home [02:15.46] [02:15.98]They took every field my family owned [02:18.47] [02:21.75]No one moves away with no money [02:24.21]They just do what they can [02:25.80] [02:26.56]To live in the heart of America [02:28.90]Getting by on their own two hands [02:31.01] [02:31.65]You can pray to anybody's Jesus [02:34.45]And be a hardworking man [02:35.86] [02:36.83]But at the end of the day if the rain it don't rain [02:41.36] [02:41.96]If the bank it don't break [02:44.03] [02:44.64]We just do what we can [02:47.73] [02:50.07]You just do what you can