CF [G] C
Oh, the sun rolls down, big as a miracle
F
And fades from the Midwest Sky
CFGC
And the corn and the trees wave in the breeze
FC
As if to say goodbye
CF [G] C
Oh, my grandfather stood right here as a younger man
F
In nineteen and forty three
CFGC
And with the sweat and his tears, the rain and the years
FGC
He grew life from the soil and seed
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CGF
Oh I'm goin' down to the dreaming fields
CF
But what will be my harvest now
GCF
Where every tear that falls on a memory feels
F
Like rain on the rusted plow
C
Rain on the rusted plow
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CF [G] C
And these fields they dream of wheat in the summertime
F
Grandchildren running free
CFGC
And the bales of hay at the end of the day
FC
And the scarecrow that just scared me
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CF [G] C
Now the houses they grow like weeds in a flower bed
FC
This morning the silo fell
CFGCF
Seems the only way a man can live off the land these days
[G] C
Is to buy and sell
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CGF
Oh I'm goin' down to the dreaming fields
CF
But what will be my harvest now
GCF
Where every tear that falls on a memory feels
F
Like rain on the rusted plow
C
Rain on the rusted plow
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FG
Like the rain on the roof on the porch by the kitchen
FG
Where as my grandmother sings, I can hear if I listen
F [G] C
Running down, running down to the end of the world I loved
This will be my harvest now
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CF [G] C
And the sun rolls down, big as a miracle
F
And fades in the Midwest sky
CFGC
And the corn and the trees wave in the breeze
FG
As if to say goodbye
FC
As if to say goodbye
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.