Chords for Levon Helm "Poor Old Dirt Farmer" Official Music Video

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_ _ _ _ _ [C#] Well, they sure are killing this country, I know that.
My hometown is gone.
I mean, it's just gone.
There ain't been a new bridge or a new road or school.
Ain't the [C] only thing they built is jailhouses.
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Oh, the poor old dirt farmer, he's lost all his corn.
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_ [C] _ _ [G] _ He can't pay [C] off his loan.
He lost all his corn. _ _ _
Well, the poor old dirt farmer, he only grows stone.
_ _ _ He grows them on down [G] till they're big enough [C] to grow.
[G] He grows them on down till the tax [C] man in town, [G] he [C] grows them on down. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] I thought about you [Am] the other night, Mr.
[C] Gill.
I was watching the History [G] Channel.
Oh, yeah.
They had the Battle of [C] Iwo Jima on.
Oh, [G] yeah.
[C] I sometimes wonder how I ever made it, you know. _ _
Now, the poor old dirt farmer, [Em] _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ his wife and his [G] children, they packed up [C] and gone.
Packed up [G] and gone.
He left [C] all his loans.
[G] They packed _ [C] _ _ _ _
up.
Well, the poor old dirt farmer, [G] how bad he [C] must feel.
_ _ He fell off [Gm] his [G] tractor off onto [C] their wheels.
And [G] now his head's shaped [C] like a tree, [G] but he ain't [C] quite dead. _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ _ [G] I read myself.
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[G] I read myself.
I didn't know [C] what my mama was, my daddy, and he was drunk of all kinds.
Well, the poor old dirt farmer, he can't grow no corn.
_ _ _ He can't grow no [G] corn, cause [C] he ain't got a loan.
He ain't [G] got a loan.
He can't [C] grow no corn.
[G] He [C] ain't got no loan. _ _ _
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[G] _ _ [C] _ _ Everybody calls me Jack.
[Gm] I know it, [G] but my mom and dad would roll over if I started calling you Jack.
You know, back then, Mr.
Gill, if you didn't say sir and mister and stuff, you know, it
was straight to the woodshed, you know. _ _ _ _ _ _
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