G                              D         C    G
Watch the field behind the plow, turn to straight, dark rows,
         Am                                C                  D
Feel the trickle in your clothes, blow the dustcake from your nose.
         G                             D     C    G
Hear the tractor's steady roar, oh you can't stop now,
          Am              D7              G   
There's a quarter section more or less to go.  
     

[Verse 2]
   G                                D   C     G
It figures that the rain keeps it's own sweet time,
        Am                               C                  D
You can watch it come for miles, but you guess you've got a while.
            G                          D    C     G
So ease the throttle out a hair, every rod's  a gain,
        Am         D7             G 
There's victory in every quarter mile.  


[Chorus 1]
         D              
Poor old Kuzyk down the road,
    Em                   C                   G
The heartache, hail, and hoppers brought him down.
           G      A       D     
He gave it up and went to town, and
D                             
Emmet Pierce, the other day,  
       Em               C               G
Took a heart attack and died at forty - two.
          G      A       D                               G    Em D
You could see it coming on, 'cause he worked as hard as you. 

[Verse 3]
      G                           D   C     G
In an hour, maybe more, you'll be wet clear through,
    Am                           C                D
The air is cooler now, pull your hat brim further down, and
          G                             D        C    G
Watch the field behind the plow turn to straight dark rows.
        Am              D7             G  
Put a - nother season's promise in the ground 

[Chorus 2]
           D             
And if the harvest's any good,
    Em               C             G
The money just might cover all the loans.
       G         A        D    
You've mortgaged all you own,  
D
Buy the kids a winter coat.
         Em                 C                G
Take the wife back east for Christmas if you can.
    G      A         D                              G     Em  D
All summer she hangs on, when you're so tied to the land. 

[Verse 4]
        G                              D     C       G
For the good times come and go, but at least there's rain.
        Am                                 C               D
So this won't be barren ground, when Sep - tember rolls a- round,
             G                              D        C    G
So watch the field behind the plow, turn to straight dark rows.
        Am              D7             G  
Put a - nother season's promise in the ground. 
          G                              D        C    G
Watch the field behind the plow, turn to straight dark rows.
        Am              D7             G   
Put a - nother season's promise in the ground.