Turn the Soil Let Something Grow Lyrics

I started out in a flannel shirt on that early Spring day

Pushing my clumsy shovel through that Shelby County clay

Now may hands are sore my back is bare the last of winter blows through my hair

I got twenty something reasons to quit right there

But I have just begun

Turn the soil let something grow

There are easier ways I know

But this is the path I've chosen so turn the soil let something grow

I ain't got the big machines like the man on down the road

He's got forty seven acres and a big John Deere at least that what I'm told

But I got my shovel, I got my back and a real good helper keeps me on track

And faith makes up for what I lack and

I have just begun

Turn the soil let something grow

There are easier ways I know

But this is the path I've chosen so turn the soil let something grow

It's been years since someone here has worked out on this land

And all I got to show for now are these callouses on my hands

But I will look to summer days when we eat the fruit of the crops we've raised

And this is where I'll set my gaze

Because I have just begun

Turn the soil let something grow

There are easier ways I know

But this is the path I've chosen so turn the soil let something grow