Straw Man

This here scarecrow became your straw man You dress me up and put me working in the fields Old crows hanging 'round straw man Eating them seeds before they ever bare yield I was just a hollow set of clothes Laying useless across the floor Someone else had worked hard in me for years Now I lay there dirty from a day of chores This here scarecrow became your straw man You dress me up and put me working in the fields Old crows hanging 'round straw man Eating them seeds before they ever bare yield There was a time I felt brand new Worn proudly on body lay Now these torn and worn threads seem like old shoe Good for nothing but to scare the birds away This here scarecrow became your straw man You dress me up and put me working in the fields Old crows hanging 'round straw man Eating them seeds before they ever bare yield I ain't got a word in wise to say Farmer's got me tied and beat Onlookers see me hanging right there Whispering gossip 'bout me from the street They say "Don't gotta leg to stand on Ain't got no foot in the door That boy's quite the strange phenomenon For all the crows to ignore" This here scarecrow became your straw man You dress me up and put me working in the fields Old crows hanging 'round straw man Eating them seeds before they ever bare yield This here scarecrow became your straw man You dress me up and put me working in the fields Old crows hanging 'round straw man Eating them seeds before they ever bare yield Eating them seeds before they ever bare yield Eating them seeds before they ever bare yield