rocks that you can't move
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From his "Stronger than Time" album
E
John Moses was a black man
A E
Lived half a mile from my grandaddy's farm
He worked his twenty acres
A B7
With a broke-down mule and muslces in his arms
D
For a can of RC Cola
A B7 E
He'd stop and share the widsom of his soul
D
And I'd sit there on that white fence
A E
And listen to the stories that he told
He'd seen the Great Depression
When a dollar was all a hard day's work would bring
He'd watched the crosses burning
In a time when freedom didn't ring
He'd seen w rold where minds were closed
And so many hearts were made of stone
But I never heard a bitter word
When I asked him 'bout the pain that he had known
[Refrão] A
He said life is full of fertile ground
D E
But it takes a little rain to make things grow
A
And when it comes to harvest time
D E
We're all bound to reap just what we sow
A
So the best that I can tell you boy
B7 E
Is always do the best that you can do
A
Move the rocks and plow your fields
E N/C
And plow between the rocks that you can't move
Now the year we burried Grandpa
Life had really knocked me to the ground
The woman I loved had left me
And the business I'd built up was shuttin down
I went to see John Moses
To talk about the trouble on my mind
But that old farmhouse was covered up
In kudzu and honeysuckle vines
D
I leaned against that rusty fence
B7 E7
And let the past blow through me like the wind
D
And as the sun was sinkin low
B7 E7
I could've sworn I heard his voice again
CHORUS
Move the rocks and plow your fields
And plow between the rocks that you can't move
John Moses was a good man, lived half a mile from my grandaddy's farm
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