Ben & Ellen Harper - Farmer’s Daughter lyrics

rate me

My daddy's a farmer, that makes me a farmer's daughter

But it’s no joke we’re always broke, can’t live on dirt and water

Can’t live on dirt and water

We can’t plant and we can’t grow

We can’t reap and we can’t sow

Don’t own the seed can’t plant our rows

It all belongs to Monsanto

All belongs to Monsanto

Dupont, Dow and Monsanto,

We are what we eat

They own the pollen own the seeds

Own us from head to feet

Own the air we breath

Sister shed her overalls, put on heels and skirt

City bound she fled the ground to strike her own pay dirt

Strike her own pay dirt

My brother donned a uniform, to keep us safe from harm

But terror is as terror does, the bank foreclosed our farm

Foreclosed the family farm

Jesse James he robbed the banks, they shot that boy to death

Now the banks are robbing us we got nothing left

We got nothing left

We got nothing left