Where The Grass Won't Grow-George Jones

[ti:Where The Grass Won't Grow] [ar:George Jones] [al:Tender Tears] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Where The Grass Won't Grow - George Jones (乔治·琼斯) [00:04.61]The dirt was clay and was color of the blood in me [00:09.57] [00:13.24]A twelve acre farm on a ridge in south Tennessee [00:18.35] [00:21.92]We left our sweat all over that land [00:25.99]Behind a mule we watched grow old [00:30.04] [00:31.87]Row after row [00:33.86] [00:36.72]Tryin' to grow corn and cotton on ground [00:40.09]So poor that grass won't grow [00:43.16] [00:50.49]There was one old store in the holler we all called town [00:55.55] [00:58.84]It belonged to a gentle old man named Henry Brown [01:04.24] [01:07.28]He gave us credit in the winter time o [01:11.40]We could live through the cold [01:14.35] [01:16.57]When the winds brought snow [01:18.67] [01:21.60]Tryin' to grow corn and cotton on ground [01:24.76]So poor that grass won't grow [01:27.81] [01:35.52]Oh the one I loved walked through those fields with me [01:39.81] [01:43.70]I hard workin' woman true as one could be [01:48.30] [01:51.85]Oh but then one year death was goin' round [01:55.04] [01:55.75]And swiftly took it's toll [01:58.98] [02:00.67]Janie had to go [02:02.71] [02:06.01]Now she lies asleep under ground [02:09.09]So poor that grass won't grow [02:11.66] [02:19.20]As I stand here looking over this part of Tennessee [02:23.08] [02:27.31]The fields are bare as far as the eye can see [02:31.90] [02:35.29]And over the grains where Janie lies there's a [02:39.97]Beautiful sight to behold [02:42.57] [02:44.24]And no one knows [02:46.60] [02:49.33]Why there's flowers growing on ground [02:53.73]So poor that grass won't grow