Mississippi Summer

Lyrics

[Verse 1] My hands are as cracked as an August field That's burned in the sun for a hundred years Furrows so deep you could hide yourself I ain't planting cotton no more this year I'll just sit on the porch with my eagle eye Watch for a change in the wind Rows are as straight as a shotgun barrel Long as a bullet can spin [Chorus] You know how hot it gets in Mississippi You know how dry it gets in the summer sun The dust clouds swirl all down the Delta I just hope that I don't die before the harvest comes [Verse 2] Black clouds gathering at the edge of town But no rain's gonna fall on us Hoes rise and fall in a distant field Earth takes a beating for all of us I thought I heard the Angel of Death overhead But it was only the cropduster's plane Hoes rise and fall like the beating of wings Lord, send us freedom and rain [Chorus] You know how hot it gets in Mississippi You know how dry it gets in the summer sun The dust clouds swirl all down the Delta I just hope that I don't die Hope that I don't die before the harvest comes