Rows That I Have Been Lookin For
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by: Verne Garrison; Valley Park, MO
July 21, 2005
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He'd been farming for sixty -years
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Began with mules and a moldboard plow
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Fighting the weather, and singing songs no one would hear
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Weather worn... face like leather; but making it somehow.
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Well, the mules place was taken by the John Deere Gee
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Two row corn picker...hand shucking no more.
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He holds up one finger as he drives toward me
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Last two corn rows; "The one's I been lookin for
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Next week will see his farm sale
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Tractors and wagons and tools and more
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Memories and dreams of past years will wail
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Yes The Day He'd Been Lookin for
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Now the bidders are all gone....nothing to do
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And He is sitting there, barely moving the swing
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The rain- crow breaks into it's evening coo
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And He wonders, what will I do come spring
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Now I know He and the Gee are out there ridin easy
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Like many times before
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And pulling that old picker, and singing
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"These are the rows, I been lookin for."
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And pulling that old picker, and singing
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"These are the rows, I been lookin for