Sunflowers

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Well there's cars on the driveway as you turn into the yard,
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The casket's in the living room, you look away and swallow hard.
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Someone hands you a bottle, and you don't  know who they are.
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Ain't it funny how you used to know everybody in these parts.
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And you hardly knew the dead man, though you spoke a time or to two.
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He had a wife and two small children, and he lived just like you do.

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And he died on his tractor, holdin' his end down,
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Forty acres left to plant and forty in the ground.
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But he never had a chance, that's what they're saying now.
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The bank was gonna walk in any day anyhow.
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And it makes you kind of wonder, as you watch the daylight burn,
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Wonder if he knew it, wonder if he'd heard.


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She's got a crooked smile and there's dark around her eyes.
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She says she knows she's got to get on with her life.
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And you stand off the lawn, and look to where the sun sets.
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And someone says we ain't seen the last of it yet.

Chorus

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There's a crop of yellow sunflowers, in the field across the way
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Makes you sorta grin as you're coming down the lane
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Three hundred bucks a ton, it's what they said at plantin' time
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But when it comes to harvest it wasn't worth a dime