Sunnyside Garden

	  		 

Intro 

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Verse 1:

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Every morning, they roll him to the window 
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Greeted by a warm April sun 
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He's got old habits, so hard to break 
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Up with the dawn is just one 
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Across the road from Sunnyside Garden 
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He sees a dusty John Deere 
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He counts the times it passes by 
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And dreams of the harvest this year 



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He's a farmer, a rancher, scholar of dirt 
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Well-worn overalls and an old flannel shirt 
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A husband, a daddy, a veteran so proud 
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He'd give anything if he could still work the ground 

Verse 2:

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Across the road from Sunnyside Garden 
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A young man is working the land 
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He sees him there in the window each morning 
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Waving an old feeble hand 
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He goes around getting the work done 
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Toiling until the day ends 
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Thinking about the man in the window 
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Knowing someday it might be him 


 
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He's a farmer, a rancher, scholar of dirt 
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Faded blue jeans and a Merle Haggard shirt 
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A husband, a daddy, a veteran so proud 
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He thanks the good Lord that he can work the ground 

Verse 3:

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Then one morning at Sunnyside Garden 
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They said, ("You have visitors, Ben") 
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He turned to see and he couldn't believe 
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As twenty young farmers walked in 
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They took him across from Sunnyside Garden 
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Hoisting him up in that seat 
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Tears hit the ground as the planter went down 
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Once again, he is sowing the seeds 



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They're farmers and ranchers, scholars of dirt 
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Souls of the heartland, salt of the earth 
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Husbands and daddies, veterans so proud 
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God bless the farmers who still work the ground 

Outro 

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God bless the farmers who nurture the ground