Droughts Knock You Down Video

Mr. McCrary - US History; "Settling on the Great Plains" Project

Keep ridin and keep walkin
Whether you make it to the Frontier or you stoppin
You see the road that they layin on the track-uh
So what YOU gon' have, dessert or disaster?

I never thought I'd be in the west like this
When I built my sod my mind went on a trip
Then the two companies came into place
Feels like in theyre in a race
But no one won first place

I never thought I'd fall for the Acts like this
You got me thinkin' bout our life our house and kids, yeah
Every mornin' the exodusters came
'Cause boy they came around and knocked the land down
Knocked them down

Sometimes droughts come around
(floods comes around fires comes around)
And it knocks you down
Just get back up
When it knocks you down
(Knocks you down)
Sometimes plagues come around
(raids comes around)
And it knocks you down
Just get back up
When it knocks you down
(Knocks you down)

I never thought I'd get work done quick
Yall go ahead I think I'm gonna use my steel plow today
I used to produce grain in 180 minutes now it takes only 10
Thanks to these inventions by Deere and McCormick, me and my friends
(my friends)

Hey, now I'm crashing, don't know how it happened
But I know I am in debt
Said if I could go back, and make it happen faster
Don't you know how extortion killed my life
Bonanza farms, ohh, to the fullest, the load never too much
The banks helpin' me pull it
The railroad shot the bullet that ended my life
I swear to you my farmer life just died tonight