Jasons Farm

D He bought three hundred acres ten miles south of town A7 D A drifter who decided it was time to settle down There was no sea he had not sailed a sky he had not flown A7 G D And the only place he'd never been was a place he could call his own He broke the soil and planted seed but the land refused to yield A7 D And the loneliness he felt at night was the kind no man should feel Till a woman came into his life a daughter of a soil A7 G D A bride that he could stand beside and ease his daily toil G A7 D And he called his kingdom Jason's Farm A7 D The land grew rich and green for king Jason and his queen A7 G D And the wind blew sweet each night time as they lay in each others arms A7 G D And all things good grew on Jason's Farm When the summer sun had finally gone and the harvest time was near A7 D Jason's pretty Mary whispered magic in his ear Then Jason's laughter filled the land and his soul began to sing A7 G D And he boasted of a son his wife would bear him in the spring G A7 D And all things good grew on Jason's Farm A7 D The land beneath the skies turned as green as Mary's eyes A7 G D And he felt the child grow strong in Mary's womb against his palm A7 G D And all things good grew on Jason's Farm Spoken: Now the Lord gives and he takes away and to all men this is true A7 D And most of us accept it and we learn to live it through God gave a child to Jason an extension of his life A7 G D But in doing so He traded the child for Jason's wife The crops are rotting in the fields the land left unattended A7 D And somewhere Jason roams the earth his wounded heart unmended And the house is slowly falling down and the dust of Jason's yard A7 G D A monument to a man who shunned his child and cursed his God G A7 D And nothing grows no more on Jason's Farm A7 D The land once rich and green is dead and dry like Jason's dream A7 G D And the wind that once blew sweet through Mary's hand is strangely calm A7 G D And nothing grows no more on Jason's Farm