Old Crow Medicine Show - We Don't Grow Tobacco lyrics

Hardest work that ever I done been beneath that burnin' sun Was haulin' that tobacco 'round to cure I would chop that wicked weed till our hands and fingers bleed Workin' like a mule, maybe more We've been farmin' on this land since 1810 Through flood and drought and pestilence and war Now I sure am sad to say that I've lived to see this day And we don't grow tobacco 'round here no more We don't grow, we don't grow Oh, it's still the only work we'll ever know We don't grow, we don't grow We don't grow tobacco around here no more Grandpa told me, this I know, change is comin', won't be slow Knockin' just like a thunder at the door Better fields are all around, empty barns just fallin' down Well, iron weeds comin' up through the floor Once we growed it by the pound, now the kids all moved to town And all that's left are ill, defeated and por Now I sure am sad to say rhat I've lived to see this day And we don't grow tobacco 'round here no more We don't grow, we don't grow Oh, it's still the only work we'll ever know Well, we don't grow, we don't grow We don't grow tobacco around here no more Yes, I sure am sad to say This way of life has gone away Now that we don't grow tobacco 'round here no more, well No, we don't grow tobacco 'round here no more