Where Grass Won't Grow

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The dirt was clay and was the 
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color of the blood in me
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A twelve acre farm on a ridge in 
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south Tennessee
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We left that sweat all over that 
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land behind a mule we watched grow 
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old row after row
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Trying to grow corn and cotton on 
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ground so poor that grass won’t grow

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There was one old store in the 
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hollow we all called town
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It belonged to a gentle old man 
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named Henry Brown
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He gave us credit in the 
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wintertime so we could live through
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 the cold when the wind brought snow
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Trying to grow corn and cotton on 
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ground so poor that grass won’t grow

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The one I loved walked through 
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those fields with me
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She was a hard working woman true 
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as one could be
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But then one year death was going 
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'round and swiftly took it’s toll, 
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Janie had to go
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Now she lies asleep under ground 
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so poor that grass won’t grow


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As I stand here looking over this 
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part of Tennessee
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The fields are bare as far as the 
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eye can see
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And over the grave where Janie 
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lies there’s a beautiful sight to 
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behold And no one knows
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Why there’s flowers growing on 
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ground so poor that grass won’t grow