(The) Migrant Worker-Jim Croce

[00:10.37]Pickin’ wasn’t easy [00:12.42]Kept you brown and thin [00:14.70]Been a child for every season [00:16.50]that the fruit was on the limb [00:20.00]Pack the truck Maria, [00:22.54]tell the kids we’re off again [00:25.77]Cross a dozen states or more, [00:27.81]we’ll teach em’ what we can. [00:30.87]Teach ‘em what we can, [00:33.19]we can’t do more [00:36.45]The land is good but still the livin’s poor [00:40.92]Harvest in September, drought in mid-July [00:45.77]January’s peekin’ [00:47.53]through a white lace gypsy sky [00:51.50]March rolls in to April, [00:53.75]then plant and pray for rain [00:56.36]Sweat like hell in August, [00:58.31]run the circle once again [01:01.74]Run the circle once again and then once more [01:07.01]The land is good but still the livin’s poor [01:12.39] [01:17.99]Oregon in August, Michigan in May [01:22.59]Tryin’ to make enough [01:24.16]to keep my family on its way [01:27.92]And you buy the pickin’ boss a drink, [01:30.68]to keep workin’ every day [01:33.77]You know it isn’t honest, [01:35.43]but you do it anyway [01:39.04]Do it any way to keep alive [01:44.00]Do it anyway to keep alive [01:49.45]