Field Behind The Plow Chords by Stan Rogers

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Watch the field behind the plow, turn to [D] straight [C] [G] dark _ rows, [Am]
feel the trickle in your clothes, [C] blow the dust cake from [D] your nose, _ [G] hear the _ tractor's steady roar, _ [D] oh you [C] can't [G] stop now, _ [Am] there's a quarter section [D] more or less [G] to go.
_ _ _ _ And it figures that the rain _ [D] keeps its [G] own sweet time, [Am] you can watch it come for miles, [C] but you guess you've got [D] a while, so [G] ease the throttle out of there, _ [D] every _ [C] rod's [G] a gain, _ [Am] there's victory _ [D] in every quarter [G] _
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_ _ Poor [D] old Cusick down the road, _ [Em] the hardy [C] cailin hoppers [G] brought him down, he gave it [Am] up and [D] went to town, _ _ and Emmet _ Pierce the other day, _ [Em] took a heart attack [C] and died at forty [G]
-two, _ you could see [D] it coming _ on, cause he worked as hard [C] as you.
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_ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ In [G] an hour, _ maybe more, _ [D] you'll be wet, [C] play [G] through, _ [Am] the air is cooler now, _ [C] pull your hat brim [D] further down, and [G] watch the field behind the plow, turn [D] to [C] straight [G] dark rows, [Am] put another _ [D] season's promise [G] in the _ ground. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ And [D] if the _ harvest's any good, _ [Em] the money just [C] might cover all [G] the loans, you've [Am] mortgaged [D] all you _ own, _ _ buy the kids a winter coat, _ [Em] take the wife back east [C] for Christmas _ [G] if you can, all [D] summer she hangs on, when you're so tied to the [C] _ land.
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[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ For [G] the good times come and go, _ [D] but at [C] least [G] there's rain, so this [Am] won't be barren ground, _ [C]
when September rolls [D] around, so [G] watch the field behind the plow, turn [D] to [C] straight dark [G] _ rows, [Am] put another _ [D] season's promise in [G] the ground.
Try that now. _
Watch the field behind the plow, [D] turn to [C] straight [G] dark rows, [Am] put another _ [D] season's promise [G] in the ground. _ _ _ _
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