All That You Need

 
E 
I been workin on the farm 
E 
Just me and my brother Jack 
E 
Choppin a sea of cotton 
E 
Till I thought Id break my back 
B/F# 
Everything changed 
B/F# 
When my daddy got hurt 
E 
Our lives were so connected 
E                         E 
To that brown ol flatland dirt 

E 
When the government man from Austin 
E 
Come sniffin around our land 
E 
Askin a bunch of questions 
E 
That we did not understand 
A 
Theres more to farmin cotton 
A 
Than just tendin to your seed 
E 
The ones who set the policy 
E                          E 
Dont give a damn about our needs 
 

 
        A                    E 
Sow the seed in the ground below 
             B/F#                E 
Fall to your knees and pray real slow 
               A                 E 
That rain will come and kiss the seed 
              B/F#              E 
And Bless you with all that you need 
 

Interlude: 
Esus4 Esus4 E 


 
E 
Mama says to Jackie 
E 
Would she bring the car around? 
E 
Shes wearin her finest dress 
E 
Thats how I know shes goin to town 
  B/F# 
I wish Id never seen that letter 
B/F# 
That I found there in her room 
        E 
They're sellin the farm on the courthouse step 
E                 E 
This Tuesday afternoon 

E 
Me and Jack moved into town 
E 
To a shack by the train depot 
E 
Jack got a job as a bouncer 
E 
At a Bar on Paradise Row 
B/F# 
Mama got a job in the cotton gin 
B/F# 
Grading cotton by the bale 
    E 
She cried when a trailor full of cotton come in 
E                       E 
From the farm we had to sell 
 

 
        A                    E 
Sow the seed in the ground below 
             B/F#                E 
Fall to your knees and pray real slow 
               A                 E 
That rain will come and kiss the seed 
              B/F#              E 
And Bless you with all that you need 
 

Interlude: 

while holding E chord shape do hammer ons 
open D string hammer on D 
open D string hammer on E 
E 
walk down E7 E6 E 
open A string hammer on B 
E 


 
E 
Me, I ended up in jail 
E 
Sick of livin on welfare 
E 
And the hardest thing ever happend to me 
E 
Is when mama come to vist me there 
B/F# 
Dont you worry your pretty little head 
B/F# 
I said as I buttoned my shirt 
           E 
When I get out of this Iron Hotel 
E                            E 
Im goin back to that Dryland dirt 

E 
For some its just a livin 
E 
But for Us its our whole life 
E 
If it kills me Im gonna rake that dirt 
E 
And make a livin out of toil and strife 
    B/F# 
The ways of the cities makes no sense 
B/F# 
Strapped to dependency 
   E 
Id rather be sweatin beneath a clear blue sky 
E                      E 
Plantin cotton with my family 
 

 
        A                    E 
Sow the seed in the ground below 
             B/F#                E 
Fall to your knees and pray real slow 
               A                 E 
That rain will come and kiss the seed 
              B/F#              E 
And Bless you with all that you need 

        A                    E 
Sow the seed in the ground below 
             B/F#                E 
Fall to your knees and pray real slow 
               A                 E 
That rain will come and kiss the seed 
              B/F#              E 
And Bless you with all that you need