Iris DeMent - Banks Of Marble lyrics

I've traveled 'round this country from shore to shining shore It really made me wonder the things I heard and saw I saw the weary farmer plowing sod and loam l heard the auction hammer just a-knocking down his home But the banks are made of marble with a guard at every door and the vaults are stuffed with silver that the farmer sweated for I've seen the weary miner scrubbing coal dust from his back I heard his children cryin' "Got no coal to heat the shack" But the banks are made of marble with a guard at every door and the vaults are stuffed with silver that the miner sweated for I've seen my brothers working throughout this mighty land l prayed we'd get together and together make a stand Then we might own those banks of marble with a guard at every door and we might share those vaults of silver that we have sweated for