Only On Loan
By: Verne Garrison, August 13, 2007
at Valley Park, Mo
Only On Loan
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Well, I am a dirt- farmers son
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Raised in the Illinois bottom- lands
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We didnt have much, but we had fun
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It all came from Mom and Dads hardworking hands
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They worked from sun-up to sun- down
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To keep we younguns clothed and fed
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Everything we had came from the ground
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It was hard work but nothing much was said (D7)
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Now I am old and I think about back then
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Living in town where it is all at hand
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All the things we need just around the bend
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Thanks to my folks who knew how to work the land
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Now that sharecropper and his wife have passed on
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We kids grew up and had a family of our own
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And they will little know of what went on
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Took a lifetime to learn were only here on a loan