The Day We Sold The Farm
By Slim Dusty
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
5/26/2013


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City Lights are cold tonight, they make a man feel small
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To me they say you can work all day with no return at all
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And so I dream of a mountain stream lit by a pearly dawn
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I've never lost the feeling for the place where I was born

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Highway life gets in your sights and soon ambitions grow
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Till business clowns start coming round with easy foreign loans
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It's their disguise to look surprised as your feet just leave the ground
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Next thing and auction day is set, the banks have closed it down


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And I'm heading over mountains down the slopes of brown and green
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My family's farmed for a 100 years, those valleys in between
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And yes I used to curse those hills and the rain when I was young
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Oh I never saw their charm till the day we sold the farm

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And I never thought that I'd be bought and sold on Market Day
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They gave away a lifetime with the cattle and the hay
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And the thistles by the riverside and the bracken on the run
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No I never saw their charm till the day we sold the farm


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Now tourists stroll round eighteen holes where fruit tree used to grow
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Accountants talk while farmers walk with nowhere else to go
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If there's work around in the local town they might be hanging on
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While trying to find a way back to the place where they belong


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And I never thought that I'd be bought and sold on Market Day
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They gave away a lifetime with the cattle and the hay
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And the thistles by the riverside And the bracken on the run
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No I never saw their charm till the day we sold the farm

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So I'm heading over mountains down the slopes of brown and green
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Trying to find a way back to what once belonged to me
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Oh how I used to curse those hills And the rain when I was young
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No I never saw their charm till the day we sold the farm