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Capo on 3rd fret
All chords relative to capo
Intro
MIm SOL MIm SOL MIm SOL MIm SOL
MIm SOL MIm SOL
I tend the wheat field that makes your bread
MIm SOL RE
I bind the sweet veal, pluck the hens that make your bed.
MIm SOL MIm SOL
Mother Nature & Mother Earth
MIm SOL RE
Are two of three women who dictate what I'm worth.
Chorus
MIm SOL RE DO
I'm the farmer, I work in the fields all day
MIm SOL RE DO
Don't mean to alarm her, but I know it was meant to be this way.
MIm SOL MIm SOL
You cried a tear, I wiped it dry.
I put you up upon a pedestal so high.
If you should waver, if you should sway,
I'll catch you, spread my tiny wings and fly away
MIm SOL MIm DO
You signed your picture with an O and X
MIm SOL RE
I bet you don't write "love" each time you sign your checks.
REPEAT CHORUS
DO RE SOL SOL/FA# MIm
All of this corn I grow, I grow it all for you
DO RE SOL SOL/FA# MIm
I took a hatchet to the radio, I did it all for you
DO RE DOM7
But you could have written back and you could have said "thank you".
DO RE DO RE
I guess you got better things, I guess you got better things
DO RE MIm
I guess you got better things , better things to do
SOL MIm SOL MIm SOL RE
Better things to do, better things to do,
better things to do, oh.
You say you love me, is that the truth?
Although they've heard the songs, my friends need living proof.
I know your address, I ring the bell,
I bring you flowers and a .22 with shells.
REPEAT CHORUS
Outtro:
MIm SOL MIm SOL MIm SOL MIm SOL
MIm
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