FC
He's a cold beer drinker, a buck n' deer hunter:
BbC
The best friend a dog ever had.
FC
A post-hole-digger, a mint Skoal dipper,
BbC
John Deere cap-sportin' man.
FC
With a house on a hill and a pond in the field,
BbC
Surrounded by a mess of corn rows.
FC
Makes a livin' from his labor, a credit to the Maker,
BbC
He's somebody everybody knows.
Chorus:
CBbC
Last of a dying breed who tend the fields and mend the fences.
CBbC
Heaven knows, I'd hate to think that generation might be ending,
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But if he goes, he will go down in history:
C
As the last, the last of the:
FC
Overall wearers, farmer tan tearers,
BbC
Down at the BFW hall. (Yall)
FC
Cake pan lickers, ripe tomato pickers,
BbC
Hay balers loadin' trailers in the Fall.
FC
Fruit stand sellers, town square dwellers,
BbC
Who gather at The Dairy Queen at dawn.
FC
Everybody knows him an' everybody loves him:
Bb
God, I'm gonna miss him if they're gone.
CBbC
Last of a dying breed who tend the fields and mend the fences.
CBbC
Heaven knows, I'd hate to think that generation might be ending,
BbFBb
But if he goes, he will go down in history:
CBb
As the last, the last of a dying breed.
C
(Last of a dying breed.)
He's a hard-working family man.
(Last of a dying breed.)
CBbC
Last of a dying breed who tend the fields and mend the fences.
CBbC
Heaven knows, I'd hate to think that generation might be ending,
BbFBb
But if he goes, he will go down in history:
CBb
As the last, the last of a dying breed.
Of a dying breed.
Of a dying breed.