[00:10.37]Pickin’ wasn’t easy
[00:12.42]Kept you brown and thin
[00:14.70]Been a child for every season
[00:16.50]that the fruit was on the limb
[00:20.00]Pack the truck Maria,
[00:22.54]tell the kids we’re off again
[00:25.77]Cross a dozen states or more,
[00:27.81]we’ll teach em’ what we can.
[00:30.87]Teach ‘em what we can,
[00:33.19]we can’t do more
[00:36.45]The land is good but still the livin’s poor
[00:40.92]Harvest in September, drought in mid-July
[00:45.77]January’s peekin’
[00:47.53]through a white lace gypsy sky
[00:51.50]March rolls in to April,
[00:53.75]then plant and pray for rain
[00:56.36]Sweat like hell in August,
[00:58.31]run the circle once again
[01:01.74]Run the circle once again and then once more
[01:07.01]The land is good but still the livin’s poor
[01:12.39]
[01:17.99]Oregon in August, Michigan in May
[01:22.59]Tryin’ to make enough
[01:24.16]to keep my family on its way
[01:27.92]And you buy the pickin’ boss a drink,
[01:30.68]to keep workin’ every day
[01:33.77]You know it isn’t honest,
[01:35.43]but you do it anyway
[01:39.04]Do it any way to keep alive
[01:44.00]Do it anyway to keep alive
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