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John McCutcheon
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Ask Any Farmer
Come fill up your glasses and gather on around And I'll tell you the truth what's a going on down All through the country people sounding the alarm Everyone's a-wondering what's happening on the farm The businessman says, 'Let the strongest ones survive' But if he ain't got food how's he gonna stay alive And the politician says, 'Everything's a-getting better' But you might as well be standing 'hind a compost spreader
Just ask any farmer in Kansas Ask any farmer in Carolina, too Out in Dakota, Kentucky, Minnesota And I guarantee you'll find that what I'm telling you is true
Now, I believe it all started 'bout a dozen years ago Everybody scratching just to make a little dough The bankers saw the land prices go high So they went to the farmer, said, 'Buy, buy, buy 'Don't you need a little money? Don't you need a little loan? 'Don't you need some new machinery? A mortgage on your home?' Then the land went down till everything's a debit And the banker came back, said, 'You ain't got the credit 'And I'd really like to help you, but it's out of my control' And now the farmer's in hock, but the banker's on a roll
Just ask any farmer in Kansas Ask any farmer in Carolina, too Out in Dakota, Kentucky, Minnesota And I guarantee you'll find that what I'm telling you is true
But all through time, I'm telling you Trouble on the farm ain't nothing new It's the fever or the government, The flooding or the drought, Hard times is something every farmer know about How the cost goes up and the price goes down Till you don't get nothing when you haul it into town But nobody's worried yet, you got to understand And now I'm gonna tell you when it really hits the fan: When the farmer can't pay for the low, low prices And the banker's in trouble, then we got a crisis Uncle Sam steps in and the banker's in clover And the newspapers tell us that the trouble's all over And they call it a solution but the facts all mock it 'Cause the money all stays in the pin-striped pocket
Just ask any farmer in Kansas Ask any farmer in Carolina, too Out in Dakota, Kentucky, Minnesota もっと沢山の歌詞は ※ Mojim.com And I guarantee you'll find that what I'm telling you is true
Then we sat down the farmer and we told him what to do Said, 'Feed the world and keep the price cheap, too!' So he doubled the production, and he kept the prices down By loading up on chemicals and spreading them around Now you got cheap food and you know there's plenty of it Don't taste like nothing but your checkbooks love it And the topsoil washes and the land gets dry And the farmer gets sick and the earthworms die
Just ask any farmer in Kansas Ask any farmer in Carolina, too Out in Dakota, Kentucky, Minnesota And I guarantee you'll find that what I'm telling you is true
You know, it's mighty hard to figure and I'll never understand We got so much food and there's hunger in the land You might get a little bite of that surplus cheese But most of that food is getting shipped overseas Where it's sold so cheap that the farmers over there Go belly-up broke but we don't care 'Cause the plan is for the food of all them nations Be raised over here by big corporations
Just ask any farmer in Kansas Ask any farmer in Carolina, too Out in Dakota, Kentucky, Minnesota And I guarantee you'll find that what I'm telling you is true
They say you better get bigger or you better get out The way to get bigger is for another to get out They pit the farmers of the land against each other When really we ought to be sisters and brothers No, we're never gonna make it until we realize That we got to get together, yes, we got to organize Stop killing our farmers, stop killing our land Stop handing all the profits to the middle man It's like all this time we've been going to the till Saying, 'Charge it! And send my kids the bill!' How they gonna make it? What they gonna do? How they gonna pay it when the note comes due?
Just ask any farmer in Kansas Ask any farmer in Carolina, too Out in Dakota, Kentucky, Minnesota And I guarantee you'll find that what I'm telling you is true
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