In The Ground

In the Ground

In the ground, not many years ago

A bellyful they’d grow in the ground

In the ground, as long as they were able

They’d plan for the table in the ground



In the ground, like their parents did before

Blood and sweat they poured in the ground

In the ground that they held to as their own

They worked and made a home in the ground



Chorus

In ground like no other with help from nature’s mother

They fed this country’s cities and its towns

But in long slow surrender with profit getting slender

The family farm now often can be found

Beneath what some call progress in the ground



In the ground, they lived a straight line

But they’ve been running out of time in the ground

In the ground, that dream will be gone

And it feels so damn wrong in the ground



In the ground, we turn it over once more

And a casket we lower in the ground

In the ground, my hero gone home

I cry o’er his bones in the ground



Repeat chorus