Thirty Years Of Farming Chords by James King

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_ _ _ There's a little white note on the gate by the road that [C] a man put up [G] yesterday
_ And when we saw it, we all ran out [A] just to see what it [D] had to say
[G] And when we read it, our eyes filled with tears and [C] we fell to the [G] cold hard place
_ _ Something about a mortgage, something about foreclosure, something [D] about failing [G] to pay
Oh, and on the post by the general store [C] they put up a [G] little sign
An auction sale day after tomorrow [A] at the end of [Dm] Lincoln _ Line
[G] Thirty years of farming, thirty years of [C] heartache, thirty years of day [G] to day
Oh, my daddy stopped talking, that day the farm was auctioned, there was [D] nothing [G] left to say
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_ my mama's tears fell freely down [C] as she walked among the flowers [G] in the yard
_ And every number the auctioneer called was [A] like a blow to her [D] precious heart
[G] And every number the auctioneer called meant [C] another thing, and so [G] that day
_ While everything was auctioned, we stood there watching while they loaded it [D] and drove it away
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[G] _ And on the post by the general [Em] store they [C] put up a [G] little sign
_ An auction sale day after tomorrow at [A] the end of [D] Lincoln _ Line
[G] Thirty years of farming, thirty years of heartache, [C] thirty years of day [G] to day _
Oh, my daddy stopped talking, that day the farm was auctioned, there was nothing left to say
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the day's first dawning, we woke this [D] morning, there [C] was nothing for [G] us to do
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Nothing in the grainry, no hay in the meadow, [A] no cattle, no tractor, [D] no toon
So [G] we loaded up the car, took the clothes we [C] wore, and a few things we managed [G] to say
_ Mama read from the book, we took one last look, and then we [Dm] drove [G] _ away
And on the post by the general store [C] they put up a [Em] little sign
_ An auction sale day after tomorrow at the end of Lincoln [E] _ Line
[G] Thirty years of farming, thirty years of heartache, [C] thirty years of day [G] to day
Oh, my daddy stopped talking, that day the farm was auctioned, there was nothing left to say _ _ _ _ _ _
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