Jasons Farm

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He bought three hundred acres ten miles south of town 
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A drifter who decided it was time to settle down 

There was no sea he had not sailed a sky he had not flown 
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And the only place he'd never been was a place he could call his own 


He broke the soil and planted seed but the land refused to yield 
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And the loneliness he felt at night was the kind no man should feel 

Till a woman came into his life a daughter of a soil 
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A bride that he could stand beside and ease his daily toil 

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And he called his kingdom Jason's Farm 
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The land grew rich and green for king Jason and his queen 
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And the wind blew sweet each night time as they lay in each others arms 
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And all things good grew on Jason's Farm 


When the summer sun had finally gone and the harvest time was near 
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Jason's pretty Mary whispered magic in his ear 

Then Jason's laughter filled the land and his soul began to sing 
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And he boasted of a son his wife would bear him in the spring 

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And all things good grew on Jason's Farm 
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The land beneath the skies turned as green as Mary's eyes 
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And he felt the child grow strong in Mary's womb against his palm 
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And all things good grew on Jason's Farm 

Spoken: 

Now the Lord gives and he takes away and to all men this is true 
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And most of us accept it and we learn to live it through 

God gave a child to Jason an extension of his life 
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But in doing so He traded the child for Jason's wife 


The crops are rotting in the fields the land left unattended 
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And somewhere Jason roams the earth his wounded heart unmended 

And the house is slowly falling down and the dust of Jason's yard 
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A monument to a man who shunned his child and cursed his God 

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And nothing grows no more on Jason's Farm 
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The land once rich and green is dead and dry like Jason's dream 
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And the wind that once blew sweet through Mary's hand is strangely calm 
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And nothing grows no more on Jason's Farm