Late summer day and my

Love and I went walking

Over hills and fields

we walked, laughing and talking



Came across an old farmhouse

Standing broken and bare

It used to be someone's home

Now no one lives there.



There's a red barn standing

Held together with nails and dust

And a tired old Massey Harris

All wires and rust



Weeds overgrown in a garden

sown with care

It used to be someone's home

Now no one lives there



And through the crack

In the window pane

I hear the sound

Of the falling rain

Another farm being left run down

Another family moved into town



Had a life that they tried to save

But the banks took it all away

Hung a sign on a torn screen door

Nobody lives here no more



They worked their fingers

To the bone

Nothing left

They can call their own

Packed it in under leaden skies

With just the wheat

Waving them goodbye



Had a life that they tried to save

But the banks took it all away

Hung a sign on a torn screen door

Nobody lives here no more