Ely Joe All That You Need Lyrics

All That You Need Lyrics

I been workin on the farm



Just me and my brother Jack



Choppin a sea of cotton



Till I thought Id break my back



Everything changed



When my daddy got hurt



Our lives were so connected



to that brown ol flatland dirt







When the government man from Austin



Come sniffin around our land



Askin a bunch of questions 



That we did not understand



Theres more to farmin cotton



Than just tendin to your seed



The ones who set the policy



Dont give a damn about our needs







Sow the seed in the ground below



Fall to your knees and pray real slow



That rain will come and kiss the seed



And Bless you with all that you need







Mama says to Jackie



Would she bring the car around?



Shes wearin her finest dress



Thats how I know shes goin to town



I wish Id never seen that letter



That I found there in her room



Theyre sellin the farm on the courthouse step



This Saturday afternoon







Me and Jack moved into town



To a shack by the train depot



Jack got a job as a bouncer



At a Bar on Paradise Row



Mama got a job in the cotton gin



Grading cotton by the bale



She cried when a trailor full of cotton come in



From the farm we had to sell







Sow the seed in the ground below



Fall to your knees and pray real slow



That rain will come and kiss the seed



And Bless you with all that you need







Me, I ended up in jail



Sick of livin on welfare



And the hardest thing ever happend to me



Is when mama come to vist me there



Dont you worry your pretty little head



I said as I buttoned my shirt



When I get out of this Iron Hotel



Im goin back to that Dryland dirt







For some its just a livin



But for Us its our whole life



If it kills me Im gonna rake that dirt



And make a livin out of toil and strife



The ways of the cities makes no sense



Strapped to dependency



Id rather be sweatin aneath a clear blue sky



Plantin cotton with my family











Sow the seed in the ground below



Fall to your knees and pray real slow



That rain will come and kiss the seed



And Bless you with all that you need