Pickin’ Hours
Pickin’ Hours
The Amity Front: Border Towns
Lyrics by: Levin Schwartz
Music by: Levin Schwartz
22 more, tobacco bents to go
22 more till I pull the carpet down the row
We’ll load those patties up 4 by 4
We’ll throw the boxes on the truck bed floor
The straw boss says don’t pick so slow,
You go 22 more, tobacco bents to go.
It’s been a long time, out down the row
I’ve picked my fair share, now I get to go
To the barn to hang those laths way up high
We’ll roll them, tie them, and stoke the fires high
The boys will chase the girls on the side, and
Stoke the fires so the tobacco can dry.
It’s so hot, under the long mesh fence
Shade tobacco can be so relentless
Them rows are so straight with never a bend
All we’ve got to look to is the water break at 10:00
At the end of the day, my nails are black as night
The long pickin’ hours start before day light.