Levon Helm – Growing Trade chords

(intro)

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             A               BmI worked the land to raise a family
            G            A'Till I was weary to the bone
F#m                   GBut hard labour never bothered me
           D          ALord, it's all I ever known

         A          BmToo many seasons of calamity
             G               AAnd too much interest on the loan
F#m                      GIt's half the size as it used to be
    D       A       E          Esus4 EAnd half of that is stone

E                       AThe crops ain't worth a-seeding
       D    A        E         Esus4 ETimber only gets you fire
E                    AThe live-stock I'm a-feeding
      D      A         E   I can hardly keep 'em alive
        F#m       E      DI gotta do what I can to survive

(chorus)

           F#m            DI know the law wont be forgiving
    A                       EBut that'll be the choice I made
          Bm         GI used to farm for a living
    D                      ABut now I'm in the growing trade

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           A             BmThe summer beauty of the cotton fields
           G                  AWas like a view from heaven's door
F#m                    GMy grandaddy said that harvest time
             D                 AWas what the good lord made us for

             A                  BmI guess he'd wonder where's the dignity
     G                 AIn a crop you raise to burn
F#m                 GBut this land is my legacy
      D       A       E       Esus4  EI got nowhere else to turn

E             AShotgun on my shoulder
        D         A      E    Esus4  EWhere a tote sack oughta be
E                       AThe theives are getting bolder
        D           A        EAnd the feds may be watching me
        F#m       E       DI gotta quit this eventually

(chorus)

           F#m            DI know the law wont be forgiving
    A                       EBut that'll be the choice I made
          Bm         GI used to farm for a living
    D                      A       Asus4  ABut now I'm in the growing trade

    E              AHelicopters in the distance
        D      A     EGetting closer every day
E                           AThey're gonna meet some resistance
         D         A      EAin't no price too big to pay
E                 AIt won't make any difference,
          D       A     EWhen they take it all away,
E                      ABetween the cot in the jailhouse
      D       A        EAnd a bed beneath the clay
                F#m        E          DI guess there's nothing to do now but pray

(chorus)