Текст песни: Where Grass Won't Grow + перевод

The dirt was clay an' was the color of the blood in me

A twelve acre farm on a ridge in south Tennessee

We left our sweat all over that land

Behind a mule we watched grow old

Row after row

Trying to grow corn an' cotton on ground so poor that grass won’t grow

There was one old store in the holler we all called town

It belonged to a gentle old man named Henry Brown

He gave us grits and in the winter time

So we could live through the cold

When the winds brought snow

Trying to grow corn an' cotton on ground so poor that grass won’t grow

The one I loved walked through those fields with me

A hard workin' woman, true as one could be

But then one year, death was goin' round

And swiftly took it’s toll

Janie had to go

Now she lies asleep under ground so poor that grass won’t grow

As I stand here looking over this part of Tennessee

The fields are bare as far as the eye can see

And over the ground where Janie lies

There’s a beautiful sight to behold

And no one knows

Why there’s flowers growin' on ground so poor that grass won’t grow…

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