Heart Of America

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My sweet mother gets up so early in the morning 
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She turns on the stove and she makes a pot of coffee 
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My daddy fills his tractor up with diesel to plant the corn 
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And that's how it was on the day that I was born 

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Well the days they went by and the bins filled up with grain 
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My mother's brother died on a motorcycle in the rain 
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The town got too big for its britches and the government it came 
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And now it will never be the same 

Chorus 
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No one moves away with no money 

They just do what they can 
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To live in the heart of America 
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Getting by on their own two hands 

You can pray to anybody's Jesus and be a hardworking man 
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But at the end of the day, if the rain it don't rain 
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We just do what we can 


Solo 
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Some time back in eighty-sixwhen big banks took the throne 
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They asked about every local farmer try to dry his own corn 
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But the men in the suits had a bigger plan 
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Than to let it be our own 
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When the crops came in that spring, they were blown 

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And Neil and Willie tried so hard and battles they have gone 
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But that was still long after the bigger war had been won 
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No one was there to save the wheat and the cattle at my home 
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They took every field my family owned 


Chorus 
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No one moves away with no money 

They just do what they can 
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To live in the heart of America 
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Getting by on their own two hands 

You can pray to anybody's Jesus and be a hardworking man 
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But at the end of the day, if the rain it don't rain, if the bank it don't break 
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We just do what we can 
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You just do what you can 


Outro 
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