Government Man - Patto

Got word from home this morning it told a sorry tale indeed

It was hard to bare the news about the family I broke right down and cried

Last time I’d been home calling things were really looking fine

It broke my heart to hear about the mess your in

And now you’ve gone and moved

Man came without a warning riding on a title deed

He’d come back to tell them all they’d have to leave the land

Didn’t tell them why

20 years you worked the base line now you told you got to leave

It ain’t fair to ask a man to lay his living down

His family got to eat

You don’t buy the government man

My pa had took it bad

He tried to make a one man stand

Walked out alone and tried to fight

My mama begged the government man to call off all his men

If he promises not to take his life we’ll be moved out of here by the dawn

And you’ll never, never see us no more

God gives the good the answer working hard trying to be

But its tough to see the other side getting rich and fat

When you hardly make the pay

Drained dry from working too hard you got to find another home

It was hard to break the land and a crop to grow

They never understand

You don’t buy the government man

My pa had took it bad

He tried to make a one man stand

Walked out alone and tried to fight

My mama begged the government man to call off all his men

If he promises not to take his life we’ll be moved out of here by the dawn

And you’ll never, never see us no more

Government man got a heart of stone

Run up the land and took away their home

Going South, in the end I had to hit the road home

You don’t buy the government man

My pa had took it bad

He tried to make a one man stand

Walked out alone and tried to fight

My mama begged the government man to call off all his men

If he promises not to take his life we’ll be moved out of here by the dawn

And you’ll never, never see us no more