They Won't Have Me - Indigo Girls

A farmer struggles with a difficult decision...

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Lyrics:

They won't have me, but I love this place.
The rural life is broken, the farmlands gone to chaff.
My hands are idle, my mind needs rest,
the toil of the decent and the sleep of the best.

I sit in diners with the old men,
they talk of work cause it's all they ever did.
They gave their hearts to Jesus and got serious
They gave up their drinking and worked for this nothing.

All this love to offer, all this love to waste.
All this love to offer, all this love to waste.


There's a lame dog on the highway
where the old road used to be.
Now you know what divides us
Is just a difference someone made.
Some got tired of trying, some were just too scared to stay.
We gave ourselves to nothing and we let 'em have their day.

Now who's gonna do the planting?
Who's gonna pray for rain?
Who's gonna keep the farmland
from the sub-division man?

All this love to offer, all this love to waste.

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[vanindigo]

Love your videos - thanks to you...

[hiddenfall]

@vanindigo Thanks so much :) I appreciate you watchin the videos!

[UTAOUB]

I think they later dscovered oil on this man's land....and today he is a multi-millionaire, and helping homelsss people & teen drug-addicts & single mothers, etc/! He's also a movie-maker, & is doing a remake of "The Grapes Of Wrath"! The other guy? He got caught in a stock swindle -- & is serving 70 years in the Federal Penn right now! : )

[hiddenfall]

@UTAOUB Lol awesome storytelling I like that.

[deeiscool3]

Brilliant. Ever think it was a nice bit of foreshadowing into the state of our affairs now? Here it is, June, and what still divides us? We let 'em have their day. Now's OUR time for planting.

[hiddenfall]

Hi Dee, Thanks for the comment :). Well we're definitely at an interesting place as a country right now. I just hope that after all that's happened most people have woken up and can see the fear mongering for what it is. But then again I've *been* hoping for that one lol...