Farmer's Lament-Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie

[ti:Farmer's Lament] [ar:Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie] [al:Passing Through] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Farmer's Lament - Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie [00:03.51]I've pruned all the apples [00:04.94]And hauled brush away [00:06.75]Manured the currants [00:08.17]And seeded the hay [00:10.02]Spring work is over [00:11.58]And summer has come [00:13.37]I sure hope this season [00:14.89]Is better than some [00:16.26] [00:16.94]It's hard hard on my hard working farm [00:20.65] [00:22.37]The apples are setting [00:23.76]So mix up a spray [00:25.59]Before the curricular [00:27.06]Carts them away [00:28.70]The scab and the cotton moth [00:30.58]Work busily [00:31.94]They each choose an apple [00:33.39]And leave one for me [00:35.28] [00:36.12]It's hard hard on my hard working farm [00:39.24] [00:41.25]Boom goes the thunder [00:42.44]And splash comes the rain [00:43.94]Fine for the farmer [00:45.53]The city folks claim [00:47.36]The orchard is flooded [00:48.59]The corn's beaten down [00:50.34]And the roof of the barn [00:51.78]Is blown halfway to town [00:53.60] [00:54.36]It's hard hard on my hard working farm [00:57.72] [01:00.29]The apples are scabby [01:01.80]The currents have rot [01:03.37]There isn't a pestilence [01:05.05]We haven't got [01:06.38]The grapes are all mildewed [01:08.27]The cherries are too [01:09.75]But I'm too darn busy [01:11.29]To start feeling blue [01:13.01]It's hard hard on my hard working farm [01:16.11] [01:18.81]Here comes the buyer [01:20.16]With tears in his eyes [01:21.73]Telling so sadly [01:23.27]His wonderful lies [01:25.04]He lives in the poorhouse [01:26.50]He goes almost bare [01:28.02]The way that we treat him [01:29.84]It really ain't fair [01:31.53]It's hard hard on my hard working farm [01:34.49] [01:37.18]He don't make no money [01:38.51]He can't pay his rent [01:40.10]His profit's a measly [01:41.71]400 per cent [01:43.34]He's really an angel [01:44.93]He's misunderstood [01:46.54]So give him your shirt boys [01:48.18]Like good farmers should [01:49.80]It's hard hard on my hard working farm [01:52.90] [01:54.50]Now harvest is over [01:56.24]I ain't got a cent [01:57.73]I'm calloused and sunburned [01:59.49]My back's badly bent [02:01.14]I'm just about ruptured [02:02.69]My feet are so sore [02:04.23]Sometime I wonder [02:05.87]Just who I work for [02:07.59]It's hard hard on my hard working farm