Chris Knight - Broken plow
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Capo: 5
Capo 5
AmLoad up the old Dodge truck
We’lFmaj7l leave what we can’t sell
AmNobody needs a sharecropper’s tools
Fmaj7or a dust filled well
AmTake you one last look around
Fmaj7shed you one last tear
For the Ambroken plow, the broken dreams
And the Fmaj7life we’re leavinAmg here
Pull the lines down tight
The kids can ride on top of the load
In the cool of the night
They can crawl underneath the tarp
To stay out of the cold
Eleven hundred miles of mountain and sand
We’ll cross ‘em tired and torn
If this beat up truck can carry us
Far enough away from the storm
Chorus:
We’rFe going to CaClifornia
There’Gs work there for a man
Too Fproud to beg for Ccharity
Too Gpoor to make a Fstand
Pray it’s just the land we??G?re losing
Not my Clife’s blood that FI leave
On the Amhandles of that broken plow
That haunts me in my dreams
A man at a roadside station
Don’t like dealing with my kind
He’d beat me out of my last dollar
And never look me in the eye
I heard ‘em call us Okies
Hell I don’t know what that means
But something tells me the promised land
Ain’t as promising as it seems
Chorus
Bridge: F Am
Fmaj7This restless road is full of Amstrangers
Fmaj7They ain’t no stranger than AmI am
Fmaj7Hardened faces damn the Amdust and curse the wind
That Amdrove us from this life and home
We’lFmaj7l never knowAm again
Chorus
On the handles of my broken plow that haunts me in my dreams