On That Farm Back Home

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Lynda Dobbin-Turner

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Pounding staples, fixing fence
Straightening out the ones all bent
He's moving forward but he's looking back
Sees he followed in his Daddy's tracks
It was 1963
He never thought that he would be here
Doing just the thing his old man did
But he's got a wife, and there's three small kids
So he traded in his favorite traveling boots
For that chance that they could grow some solid roots
In that same land where he once had grown his own
On that farm back home

And never once did he think twice
Or see the choice that he'd made as a sacrifice
He knew in this life you reap what you've sown
And for every dream that he saw fade away
A new one came to take it's place
That was stronger 'cause he never dreamt alone
On that farm back home

The years slipped quickly through his grasp
Before he knew it he'd watched his last son
Heading on his way out through the door
Just like he'd done all those years before
He'd heard the call that Uncle Sam
Was looking for a few good men and
Something told him that he had to go
Though what he'd find there he didn't know
But he traded in the safety of his roots
And he polished up their standard issue boots
To defend the country and the life he'd known
On that farm back home.

And never once did he think twice
Or see the choice that he'd made as a sacrifice
He knew in this life you reap what you've sown
And for every dream that he saw fade away
A new one came to take it's place
That was stronger 'cause he never dreamt alone
On that farm back home

A few years later down the road
That youngest son returned
With the battle scars he carried
And the lessons he had learned
And the dream of doing just the thing
That his own old man had done
So he could pass that dream on down to his own son

And never once did he think twice
Or see the choice that he'd made as a sacrifice
He knew in this life you reap what you've sown
And for every dream that he saw fade away
A new one came to take it's place
That was stronger 'cause he never dreamt alone
On that farm back home
On that farm back home
On that farm back home

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