He's waking up in the pitch black,
coffee and a cup out the door for the dawn cracks
A quick prayer in the barn,
Lord we sure could use some rain
It climbs up in the tractor,
takes a hundred laps,
wakes the kids up after
Get a quick kiss from your baby,
then it's time to start the day
It's giving all you've got to give and going ten steps farther
It's a dusty cap and coveralls that you put on like armor
Yeah,
the days are long and the work is hard,
but your calloused hands are harder
Yeah,
the only thing tougher than the farmer is the farmer
It's dinner time and sunset,
knowing that a bunch of folks that you ain't met
Can gather round the table with enough to pass around
It's a good dog and a dirty truck,
a hand helping your neighbor up
It's the whole world counting on us and we ain't gonna let them down
It's giving all you've got to give and going ten steps farther
It's a dusty cap and coveralls that you put on like armor
The days are long,
the work is hard,
but your calloused hands are harder
The only thing tougher than the farmer is the farmer
Steady as a fence post,
shoots straighter than a corn row
The world needs him,
God knows,
that's why he made
the farmer
It's giving all you've got to give and going ten steps farther
It's a dusty cap and coveralls that you put on like armor
Yeah,
the days are long and the work is hard,
but your calloused hands are harder
Yeah, the only thing tougher than the farmer
is the farmer
Mmm,
God bless the farmer, yeah