Lyrics

On That Farm Back Home
Music and Lyrics by Lynda Dobbin-Turner

V1
Pounding staples, fixing fence, Straightening out the ones all bent
He's moving forward but he's looking back
Sees he's followed in his Daddy's tracks
It was 1963, He never thought that he would be
Here, doing just the thing his old man did
But he's got a wife, and there's three small kids
So he traded in his favorite traveling boots
For that chance that they could grow some solid roots
In that same land where he once had grown his own, on that farm back home

CHORUS
And never once did he think twice, or see the choice that he'd made as a sacrifice
He knew in this life you reap what you've sown
And for every dream that he saw fade away, a new one came to take it's place
That was stronger 'cause he never dreamt alone, on that farm back home

V2
The years slipped quickly through his grasp
Before he knew it he'd watched his last son
Heading on his way out through the door, just like he'd done all those years before
He'd heard the call that Uncle Sam
Was looking for a few good men and
Something told him that he had to go, though what he'd find there he didn't know
But he traded in the safety of his roots
And he polished up their standard issue boots
To defend the country and the life he'd known, On that farm back home.

CHORUS
And never once did he think twice, or see the choice that he'd made as a sacrifice
He knew in this life you reap what you've sown
And for every dream that he saw fade away, a new one came to take it's place
That was stronger 'cause he never dreamt alone, on that farm back home

REFRAIN
A few years later down the road, that youngest son returned
With the battle scars he carried and the lessons he had learned
And the dream of doing just the thing his own old man had done
So he could pass that dream on down to his own son

CHORUS
And never once did he think twice, or see the choice that he'd made as a sacrifice
He knew in this life you reap what you've sown
And for every dream that he saw fade away, a new one came to take it's place
That was stronger 'cause he never dreamt alone, on that farm back home