We Don't Grow Tobacco

All these work that ever I've done

Been beneath that burning sun

So, holding that tobacco around to cure

I would chop that wicked weed

'Til our hands and fingers bleed

I'm working like I'm you, baby boy

We've been farming on this land since 1810

Through the drought and pestilence and war

Now I sure am sad to say

That I would live to see this day

And we don't grow tobacco around here no more

We don't grow, we don't grow

Oh, it's still the only work we'll ever know

We don't grow, we don't grow

We don't grow tobacco around here no more

Grandpa told me this, I know

Change is coming, it won't be slow

Knocking just like a thunder at the door

Better feel the roar around

Empty bonds just fall undone

Where iron is coming up through the floor

Once we grow it by the pond

Now the kids are moved to town

And all that's left are road and meat and corn

Now I sure am sad to say

That I will live to see this day

And we don't grow tobacco around here no more

We don't grow, we don't grow

Oh, it's still the only work we'll ever know

Well, we don't grow, we don't grow

We don't grow tobacco around here no more, oh

Woo, yes, I sure am sad to say

This way of life has gone away

Now that we don't grow tobacco around here no more

Well no we don't grow tobacco around here no more