Where Grass Won't Grow

[00:08.11] The dirt was clay and was the color of the blood in me
[00:15.44] On a 12-acre farm on a ridge in south Tennessee
[00:23.68] We left our sweat all over that land behind a mule we watched grow old, row after row
[00:36.56] Trying to grow corn and cotton on ground so poor that grass won't grow
[00:45.53] There was one old store in the holler that we all called town
[00:52.93] And it belonged to a gentle old man named Henry Brown
[01:00.59] He gave credit in the wintertime so we could live through the cold when wind brought the snow
[01:14.09] Trying to grow corn and cotton on ground so poor that grass won't grow
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[01:59.61] The one I loved walked through those fields with me
[02:06.84] He was a hardworking man, as true as one could be
[02:14.66] But last year death was going 'round and swiftly took its toll he had to go
[02:28.06] And now he lies asleep underground, so poor, that grass won't grow
[02:36.80] As I stand here looking over this part of Tennessee
[02:44.72] The fields are bare as far as the eye can see
[02:52.19] And over the grave where my love lies there's a beautiful sight to behold and no one knows
[03:05.58] Why there's flowers blooming on ground, so poor, that grass won't grow
[03:14.16] Now there's flowers blooming on ground, so poor, that grass won't grow
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