Baby, I know we've got trouble in the fields When the bankers swarm like locusts Out there turnin' away our yield The trains roll by our silo...silver in the rain They leave our pockets full of nothin' But our dreams and the golden grain Have you seen the folks in line downtown at the station They're all buyin' their tickets out And they're talkin' the great depression Our parents had their hard times...fifty years ago When they stood out in these empty fields In dust as deep as snow All this trouble in our fields If this rain can fall These wounds can heal They'll never take our native soil What if we sell sell that new John Deere? And then we'll work these crops with sweat and tear You'll be the mule And I'll be the plow Come harvest time...we'll work it out There's still a lot of love Here in these troubled fields
There's a book upon the shelf about those dust bowl days And there's a little bit of you and little bit of me In the photos on every page Our children live in the city And they rest upon our shoulders They never want the rain to fall Or the weather to get colder All this trouble in our fields If this rain can fall These wounds can heal They'll never take our native soil What if we sell sell that new John Deere? And then we'll work these crops with sweat and tear You'll be the mule And I'll be the plow Come harvest time...we'll work it out There's still a lot of love Here in these troubled fields