Fred Eaglesmith Follow

Well there's cars in the driveway as you turn into the yardThe casket's in the living roomYou look away and swallow hardSomeone hands you a bottleAnd you don't know who they areFunny, how you used to know everybody in these partsAnd you hardly knew the dead man Though you spoke a time or toAnd he had a wife and two small children And he lived just like you doAnd he died on his tractorHolding his end downForty acres left to plantAnd forty in the groundBut he never had a chanceIt's what they're saying now The bank was going to walk in any day, anyhowAnd it makes you kind of wonderAs you watch the daylight burnWonder if he knew itWonder if he'd heardShe's got a crooked smileAnd there's dark around her eyesShe says she knows she's got to get on with her lifeAnd you stand off aloneAnd look to where the sun setsSomeone says we ain't seen the last of it yetAnd he died on his tractorHolding his end downForty acres left to plant And forty in the groundAnd he never had a chanceThat's what they're saying nowThe bank was going to walk in any day, anyhowAnd it makes you kind of wonderAs you watch the daylight burnWonder if he knew itWonder if he'd heardThere's a crop of yellow sunflowersIn the field across the wayMakes you sorta grinAs you're coming down the laneThree hundred bucks a tonIt's what they said at plantin' timeBut when it comes to harvestIt wasn't worth a dime