Throw a capo on the third fret and this should sound about right.
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Hardest work that ever I done, bent beneath that burnin’ sun
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Haulin’ that tobacco ‘round to cure
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How we chopped that wicked weed ‘till our hands and fingers bleed
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Workin’ like a mule, maybe more
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We been farmin’ on this land
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Since eighteen hundred ten
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Through flood and drought
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And pestilence and war
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Now I sure am sad to say
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That I’ve lived to see this day
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When we don’t grow tobacco
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‘Round here no more
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We don’t grow, we don’t grow
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Oh, it’s still the only work we’ll ever know
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We don’t grow, we don’t grow
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We don’t grow tobacco ‘round here no more
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Granpa told me, this I know, change is comin’, won’t be slow
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Knockin’ just like thunder at the door
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Fallow fields are all around, empty barns just fallin’ down
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Iron weeds comin’ up through the floor
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Once we growed it by the pound
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Now the kids all move to town
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And all that’s left are elderly and poor
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Now I sure and sad to say
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That I’ve lived to see the day
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When we don’t grow tobacco
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‘Round here no more
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We don’t grow, we don’t grow
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Oh, it’s still the only work we’ll ever know
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We don’t grow, we don’t grow
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We don’t grow tobacco ‘round here no more
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Yes, I sure am sad to say this way of life has gone away
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Now that we don’t grow tobacco ‘round here no more
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We don’t grow tobacco ‘round here no more
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We Don't Grow Tobacco
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| Old Crow Medicine Show |
