(Chris Jonat)
Well I'm Jonathan Henry McKay I've on this farm 30 years and a day Some folks call me Junior but I don't like it way Since the of '90 when dad left to stay Mom passed a year later couldn't bear alone It's going on ten years I head of this home Now I got me a wife and three of my own I work hard, I live clean, I reap what I've
Aint had to speak of in round near a year Crops searching for water but there nothing near We need something soon, but it come I fear My children won't eat, run out of tears. So I went to the back forty, I needed the air I walked the fence, through the Johnson share And when I made right sure no one me there I got down on my knees, Lord, do you care?
Amen, Amen, Oh Lord, Amen,
Next came early sleep still in my eyes My eldest, John Three, he was the to rise He said, come quick I got the biggest surprise We jumped to our cause we realized Could hear the rain the patio door And sneaking through cracks onto the floor We in the yard til we could stand it no more Then got down on our knees our thanks to the Lord
I sent the to their aunts, day before last Yesterday morning told the wife get there The keeps rising it's already past The roof of the house but I'm pat Now I'm top of the where my daddy once climbed And I'm I'm done though it don't seem my time I got living to do, business to watch the boys grow, see the next in my line And I can't bow down, cause there's no for my knees But I'm out loud now, I'm asking you please Father have mercy, hear my pleas up in heaven I'm not ready to leave
Well I'm Jonathan Henry McKay And lived on this farm my ten years and a day Some folks call me Three but I don't it that way daddy done traded his own life for rain