Now I'm A Farmer - New Remix / Twickenham Sessions / 1970

Lyrics for Now I'm A Farmer - New Remix / Twickenham Sessions / 1970

I got a spade and a pickaxe And a hundred miles square of land to churn about My old horse is weary But sincerely I believe that he can pull a plow Well, I've moved into the jungle Of the agricultural rumble to grow my own food And I'll dig and plow and scrape the weeds 'Til I succeed in seedin' cabbage growin' food Now I'm a farmer And I'm diggin', diggin', diggin', diggin', diggin' Now I'm a farmer And I'm diggin', diggin', diggin', diggin', diggin' It's alarming how charming It is to be a farmer How calming and balmin' The effects on the air Well, I farmed for a year and grew a crop of corn That stretched as far as the eye can see That's a whole lot of cornflakes Near enough to feed New York 'til 1973 Cultivation is my station and the nation Buys my corn from me immediately And holdin' sixty thousand bucks I watch as dumper trucks tip New York's cornflakes in the sea Now I'm a farmer And I'm diggin', diggin', diggin', diggin', diggin' Now I'm a farmer And I'm diggin', diggin', diggin', diggin', diggin' It's alarming how charming It is to be a farmer How calming and balmin' The effects on the air Now look here, son The right thing to say Necessarily what you want to say The right thing to do Necessarily what you want to do The right things to grow Necessarily what you want to grow Your own happiness Doesn't necessarily teach you What you want to know Well, I'm suntannin' deep So's the horse and my hands are deeply gray Old horse is a-grazin' and it's amazin' Just how lazily he took the strain Well, my pick and spade are rusty 'Cause I'm paid, I'm trustin' Heed my square of cornfield bed It's alarming how charming It is to be a farmer How calming and balmin' The effects on the air When you grow what I grow Tomatoes, potatoes, stew Egg plants, mmm Potatoes, tomatoes, ha-ha Gourds, boners