Lyrics:
couldn't tell that they hadn't come from town
A sharecropper family across the road didn't have it as good as us
They didn't even have a light and it was
some hickernuts we'd found
We walked to the sharecropper's porch and set 'em down
A poor old ragged lady eased open the door
She picked up
A sharecropper's shack in a hot cotton patch
Was home sweet home to me
And I would't take a mansion in trade
For my Mississippi memories
Oh I'm missin' Mississippi
a thing 'cause they're already here
Daylight till dark my work's never done
Lord have mercy on this sharecropper's son
Mama's got the fever
a thing 'cause they're already here
Daylight till dark my work's never done
Lord have mercy on this sharecropper's son
Mama's got the fever
of the harvest
Would you rain down on the least of these
Would you please multiply and divide them
These are my sharecropper seeds
These are my Sharecropper seeds
down, you couldn't tell that they hadn't come from town.
A sharecropper family across the road didn't have it as good as us,
They didn't even have
Our neighbors in the big house called us redneck
'Cause we lived in a poor share-croppers shack
The Jacksons down the road were poor like we were
But
I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia I used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her
She never had much just a sharecropper's daughter
But I
children ain't free
I'd whistle down the road but I wouldn't feel right
I'd hear somebody cryin' out at night
From a sharecropper shack or penitentiary
a sharecropper's wages is my only fare
Yes makin' my livin' just working the land
But I still think the good things outweigh the bad
Well I've rocked my babies...
half stupid and the other half dumb
Born to live and die in a sharecropper's slum
People said
The boy's born to be a bum
Who's gonna cry when ya die,
can
No money can buy my baby boy's cried
We're poor folks but not for today
My wife said she knew what would miracles do
For a family on sharecropper's
On a rainy Wednesday morning, on the day that I was born
In my old sharecropper's one room country shack
They said my mommie left me the day before
built more homes than fingers on her hands
A sharecropper's wife living on county crown land
And then they wrested the harvest from the land and it's
Oh sharecropper daughter
She sings the blues of a coal miner's son
She said that I know what you're thinking when you hear the way I talk
When
born to a farmer who was friends with my father
I was in love with a sharecropper's only daughter
Thought I was in, he made me think again
But when
SHARECROPPER'S SON
MAMA'S GOT THE FEVER AND THE BABY'S SICK TOO
PAPA'S DOWNTOWN JUST SOAKIN' UP THAT BOOZE
JUST OUT OF PRISON, SAYS HE'S NEVER GOIN' BACK
Growing up in the deep south Mississippi Delta
Sharecropper's community she brings the struggle up
She thinks voting could help
Why isn't she
they kill the Panthers
As the waves shift better know we still here
I knew a sharecropper, his daddy a sharecropper too
So the world that he knew, was
find social workers as bad me?
The original USC
MSW class of 2013
Upgraded my degree
A sharecropper's daughter
Left Bulldog Land
Crossed the water
Into
BLUES BOY
He was born in Bena Mississippi
A poor delta sharecropper’s son
Spent all day just choppin’ cotton
Loadin’ trucks till nighttime comes
(Jonathan Kingham & Mark Erelli)
She was the parson's only daughter
And a poor sharecropper's dream
Her voice as sweet as falling water
From
fingers on her hands
A sharecropper's wife living on county crown land
And then they wrested the harvest from the land and it's lords
And when her man died
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