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Farmers' Hands

from Find The One by The Coal Porters

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these will never be farmers' hands
farmers' hands
these will never be farmers' hands

when I was a boy, there really was no question
I would farm the way my father did
made a choice to plough a different furrow
these will never be farmers' hands

living off the land, it is the oldest story
all this going away and looking back
all these songs still asking us to sing them
wishing we had farmers' hands

these great calloused hands
not for keys and buttons
'til the box and fiddle take the air
then the tunes come flowing from these fingers
these are surely farmers' hands

I can understand living far from the sea
but how we can live so far from the land?
we'd like to think we know what it is
to dig and sow in our best-laid plans

these will never be farmers' hands

don't know what I'd say today to guide my children
if I'd made the farmers' life my own
killing fields, making people crazy
you got by with farmers' hands

these will never be farmers' hands
farmers' hands
these will never be farmers' hands

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from Find The One, released July 2, 2020
Written By Neil Robert Herd
Published by Cattle Call Music/Music Rights Admin Ltd

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The Coal Porters London, UK

The Coal Porters claim to be the world’s first “alt-bluegrass” act, demonstrating the power of fiddle, mandolin, banjo, acoustic guitar and doghouse bass when matched with four-part harmonies and memorable melodies.

They have taken this sound around the world being featured on NPR’s Morning Edition in the USA and having recorded a live session for Bob Harris on BBC Radio 2.
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