Uncle Sammy

Another farmer’s dozing out the trees

Black dirt blowing in the breeze

Corn prices keep going down

They open up more virgin ground

Spraying chemicals on the bugs and weeds

Kill them all and Mother Nature bleeds

As the big boys pay the rent

With the money that Uncle Sammy sent

Pushing out them family farms

Burn the houses and the barns

Drain the marshes and plow the horizon

AC in the cabs but the temperature’s rising

Satellite tell the boys global positioning

I’m just telling you this as part of my mission

As the big boys pay the rent

With the money that Uncle Sammy sent

All the big boys pay the rent

With the money that Uncle Sammy sent

Ask them about Oklahoma in the 30’s and the hard wine that made the Grapes of Wrath

And the big boys pay the rent

With the money that Uncle Sammy sent