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Have you heard about a country where the rivers run free

That’s a place where I think you ought to go

Where the corn stands high

Tall as the sky

On the great plains of old Nebrasky-o

In school I learned of men who died by the gun

But not of those who died by the hoe

The land has drunk the rains

Of many a farmers blood

Now forgotten and buried long a go

And where are the hands that ploughed fields without sleep

And that saved a dying calf without rest

And where’s the feet that walked

Down hot dusty trails

On their way to seek their fortune going west

And where are the fathers who died in the dust

And mothers who died hungry in the snow

And where’s the kids that watched the banks

Plough the houses down

Those are things I guess my teachers never knowed

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Now you tell me droughts hurt only corn and not men

You smile and say hard times have gone away

I guess I should have listened

To my city politician

Who keeps tellin’ me that these are better days

Is there anybody left to walk a muddy mile

Is courage a word that’s only said

Is it true them dusty days were days

That never really were

But are only tales and books to be read

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