I Want to Be a Farmer

I want to be a farmer

Living off of the land

Don’t want to be no hired hand

Working on demand

 

(chorus)

It’s the only life

The only life for me

It’s the only life

I’m longing to be free

 

If I could feel each season

A husband to the land

To be would need no reason

At peace with Thy command

 

The seeds we sow they will not grow

Without the proper care

So I sing this song—help them along

Thy countenance to bear

 

 

Thomas Hubbard (c.1990)

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