We Don't Grow Tobacco

Hardest work that ever I done Been beneath that burning sun Hauling tobacco around to cure I would chop that wicked weed Till our hands and fingers bleed Working like a mule, maybe more We been farming on this land Since eighteen hundred ten Through flood, drought, pestilence and war Now I sure am sad to say That I've lived 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, won't be slow Knocking just like a thunder at the door Fallow fields are all around Empty barns just falling down With iron weeds coming up through the floor Once we growed it by the pound Now the kids all moved to town And all that's left are elderly and poor Now I sure am sad to say That I've lived 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 Ooh, 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 --- We Don't Grow Tobacco - Old Crow Medicine Show