Where Grass Won't Grow-George Jones

[ti:Where Grass Won't Grow] [ar:George Jones] [al:White Lightning] [offset:0] [00:00.00] [00:01.41]The dirt was clay and was the color of the blood in me [00:10.02]A twelve acre farm on a ridge in south Tennessee [00:20.27]We left our sweat all over that land behind a mule we watched grow old [00:28.90]Row after row [00:36.39]Tryin' to grow corn and cotton on ground so poor that grass won't grow [00:44.07]There was one old store in the holler we all called town [00:57.01]It belonged to a gentle old man named Henry Brown [01:03.88]He gave us credit in the winter time so we could live through the cold [01:15.48]When the winds brought snow [01:19.60]Tryin' to grow corn and cotton on ground so poor that grass won't grow [01:27.59][ guitar ] [01:35.58]Oh the one I loved walked through those fields with me [01:40.45]She was a hard workin' woman true as one could be [01:48.93]Oh but then one year death was goin' round and swiftly took it's toll [01:58.23]Janie had to go [02:03.84]Now she lies asleep under ground so poor that grass won't grow [02:13.20]As I stand here looking over this part of Tennessee [02:24.06]The fields are bare as far as the eye can see [02:32.73]And over the grave where Janie lies there's a beautiful sight to behold [02:42.84]And no one knows [02:48.09]Why there's flowers growing on ground so poor that grass won't grow [02:56.20]Now there's flowers growing on ground so poor that grass won't grow [02:59.19]