Simple Man

I drive my plough

from fields to fields

and my back.

is nearly broken

but in my mind

I've been doing something right

still my days

seen to go unspoken

I am a simple man

I don't ask for nothing

don't reach out for your hand

let me die on my land

My father died

when I was still young

and I had.

to find life on my own

I was sleeping in the woods

I was living on bread crumbs

make a boy feel so god-awful alone

And I am a simple man

I don't ask for nothing

don't reach out for your hand

let me die on my land

Well my mule has gone lame

and my work, my work is slow

these times .

they can bring me a little sorrow

Got no food on my table

no wood in my fire

and I pray some nights

I don't wake up tomorrow

Well I can't feed my children anymore

Now I hear death

knocking around my door

let me die in grief no more

And I am a simple man

I don't ask for nothing

don't reach out for your hand

let me die on my land