Ely Joe - All That You Need lyrics

I been workin' on the farm Just me and my brother Jack Choppin' a sea of cotton 'Till I thought I'd break my back Everything changed When my daddy got hurt Our lives were so connected To that brown ol' flatland dirt When the government man from Austin Come sniffin' around our land Askin' a bunch of questions That we did not understand There's more to farmin' cotton Than just tendin' to your seed The ones who set the policy Don't give a damn about our needs Sow the seed in the ground below Fall to your knees and pray real slow That rain will come and kiss the seed And bless you with all that you need Mama says to Jackie Would she bring the car around? She's wearin' her finest dress That's how I know she's goin' to town I wish I'd never seen that letter That I found there in her room They're sellin' the farm on the courthouse step This Saturday afternoon Me and Jack moved into town To a shack by the train depot Jack got a job as a bouncer At a bar on Paradise Row Mama got a job in the cotton gin Grading cotton by the bale She cried when a trailer full of cotton come in From the farm we had to sell Sow the seed in the ground below Fall to your knees and pray real slow That rain will come and kiss the seed And bless you with all that you need Me, I ended up in jail Sick of livin' on welfare And the hardest thing ever happened to me Is when mama come to visit me there Don't you worry your pretty little head I said as I bu*toned my shirt When I get out of this iron hotel I'm goin' back to that dry-land dirt For some it's just a livin' But for us its our whole life If it k**s me I'm gonna rake that dirt And make a livin' out of toil and strife The ways of the cities makes no sense Strapped to dependency I'd rather be sweatin' a-'neath a clear blue sky Plantin' cotton with my family Sow the seed in the ground below Fall to your knees and pray real slow That rain will come and kiss the seed And bless you with all that you need