Turnin' Dirt

Granddaddy spent sixty years

Ridin' on that same John Deere

And plowin' this here family ground

Till the day they both gave out

He said, "Boy, let's take a lap"

I'd climb up on his lap

"Before this here turns into yours, there's some things you need to know about

We turn rain into gold, and we turn seeds into somethin'

We turn hard work into cold, hard cash, but that ain't nothin'

He turned water into wine, He makes this world turn on a dime

Yeah, the closest you and I can get to God down here on Earth

Is turnin' dirt"

Well, when my turn came around

And I laid my own roots down

Me and that girl I's crazy 'bout turned into a family

Now when I turn this tractor west

I can smell the long cut on his breath now

Now, I tell his great grandson the same thing he told me

"We turn rain into gold, and we turn seeds into somethin'

We turn hard work into cold, hard cash, but that ain't nothin'

He turned water into wine, He makes this world turn on a dime

Yeah, the closest you and I can get to God down here on Earth

Is turnin' dirt"

Turnin' dirt will turn you into a better man

The same dirt that's here on mine was on his hands

So we turn rain into gold, and we turn seeds into somethin'

We turn hard work into cold, hard cash, but that ain't nothin'

He turned water into wine, He makes this world turn on a dime

Yeah, the closest you and I can get to God down here on Earth

Is turnin' dirt

Turnin' dirt