Lyrics
Walking down the fences and the barbed wires
Broken rusty everywhere
It ain't green since August
There's a dirty cloud just hanging in the air
The pond is dry and dusty
Not a bucketful of water in the well
With the weather and the government
You bet your life the farmer catches hell
And the moon is shining hard tonight
The fire won't keep you warm
It's a cold wind gonna blow on this old farm
No ma'am, that's no scarecrow
That's just my old horse there standing in the dirt
No sir, them's not patches
That's my elbows poking through this worn out shirt
No, that's not a cotton patch
That's Johnson grass just choking out my weeds
Spend the whole damn summer
Digging rows and making graves for cotton seeds
And the moon is shining hard tonight
The fire won't keep you warm
It's a cold wind gonna blow on this old farm
Daddy said that when you see the new moon
With the old moon in its arms
It's bound to be a sign of rain
But all I see are dust clouds on this farm
Just cornfields gone to ruin
And a cold and dry and dusty night wind blowing
No sir, I'm not crying
No, I don't know where I'm going, but I'm going
And the moon is shining hard tonight
The fire won't keep you warm
It's a cold wind gonna blow on this old farm
And the moon is shining hard tonight
The fire won't keep you warm
It's a cold wind gonna blow on this old farm