It'a Hard Living in a Broken Heartland

substitute any location where family farms still exist

 

"Broken Heartland"

 

He climbs up on his John Deere

Shoves a plug of Redman in his jaw

His eyes stretch 'cross the valley

Way down to where they're putting up a mall

 

His baseball cap says Kansas

The Washington says how much he can grow

There's a bank note in his pocket

That says in 30 days they'll have his home

 

It's hard living in a broken heartland

It's enough to break a man and his beliefs

Lord give him strength to mend this broken heartland

'Cause he's living proof of a dying breed

 

His sons gone off to college

Learning skills that'll get him off the farm

And his wife just keeps it all inside

Still he finds his only comfort in her arms

 

And this tractors been his treasure

Oh, how could an auction measure its true worth

And every night he asks the Father

That he may never lose this mother earth

 

It's hard living in a broken heartland

It's enough to break a man and his beliefs

Lord give him strength to mend this broken heartland

'Cause he's living proof of a dying breed

 

Lord give him strength to mend this broken heartland

'Cause he's living proof of a dying breed...

 

— Don Williams

 

 

2009 Coast-to-Coast Album, Manitoba

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