Gordon Bok – Changing Times (Guitar)

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The grasses grow tall 'til the hay it is mown

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Then the fields lie still till the new seed is sown

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Many children standing here have watched the grass wave in the wind

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We're the ones who stand here now, but many others will again

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Long, long ago these fields and the crops that they grew here

                        G7                     C    C7
Might decide a family's fate for, say, another year

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Like the grasses that grow tall and get cut down for the hay

                        G7                                C
So generations moved in here, made their marks and moved away

                   G7                         C
And the fields lie still till the new seed is sown

                     G7                   C    C7
And the grasses grow tall till the hay is mown

                       F                                       C
Many children standing here have watched the grass wave in the wind

                              G7                         C
We're the ones who stand here now, but many others will again

                       G7                                  C
After clearing off the land and piling up their long stone walls

                          G7                                   C    C7
They walked miles for the seed, then they hoped the good rains fall

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And if the rains come down right and all the crops grew tall and strong

                       G7                     C
Families had enough to eat for another winter long

    C            G7                      C
The grasses grow tall 'til the hay it is mown

                    G7                         C    C7
Then the fields lie still till the new seed is sown

                       F                                       C
Many children standing here have watched the grass wave in the wind

                              G7                         C
We're the ones who stand here now, but many others will again

                            G7                               C
Perhaps the time will come again when these fields will mean more

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And we'll learn to care for them as others did so long before

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And like the seed that's newly sown and springs to life with sun and rain

                           G7                              C
People's lives may grow to know the value of these fields again

                   G7                         C
And the fields lie still till the new seed is sown

                     G7                   C    C7
And the grasses grow tall till the hay is mown

                       F                                       C
Many children standing here have watched the grass wave in the wind

                              G7                         C
We're the ones who stand here now, but many others will again

                             G7                         C
We're the ones who live here now, but many others will again