Stan Rogers
Stan Rogers: The Field Behind the Plow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddBI1WvqgeU
Watch the field behind the plow turn to straight dark rows Feel the trickle in your clothes, blow the dusk cake from your nose And hear the tractor’s steady roar, O you can’t stop now There’s a quarter section more or less to go And it figures that the rain takes it’s own sweet time You can watch it come for miles, but you guess you’ve got a while Ease the throttle out a hair, every rod’s a gain There’s victory in every quarter mile Poor old Kuzyk down the road The heartache, hail and hoppers got him down He gave it up and went to town And Emmett Pierce, the other day took a heart attack and died at 42 You could see it comin’ on, ‘cuz he worked as hard as you Well in an hour, maybe more, you’ll be wet clear through The air is cooler now, pull your hat brim further down And watch the field behind the plow turn to straight dark rows Put another season’s promise in the ground And if the harvest’s any good, the money might just cover all the loans You’ve mortgaged all you own Buy the kids a winter coat, take the wife back east for Christmas if you can All summer she hangs on when you’re so tied to the land For the good times come and go, but at least there’s rain So this won’t be barren ground when September comes around And watch the field behind the plow turn to straight dark rows Put another season’s promise in the ground Watch the field behind the plow, turn to straight rows Put another season’s promise in the ground