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Comyn always complained that this song was impossible to play because each time the verse begins after a chorus it starts on the last chord of the chorus (which is up a full step from the previous verse) so the only way he could remember it was to play it all barre chords and memorize the pattern and even then he'd mess it up every time. Only the first two verses and chorus are written out in notation here.
Farmer’s Lament
by Momus
Many times I pondered
have I seen this all before?
and never does she wonder
when I wake up on the floor.
Not a drop in thirty days
has landed on my head
in the fields my plough just rusts
and all my work lies dead
and in the night I hear my woman crying
in the fields my crops are slowly dying
just one drop Lord early in the morning
just one tear Lord, this is what I pray
All the time I’ve been here Lord
I’ve done just what you’ve said
You know this prayer is not for me
but three young ones in bed.
All I need’s a little help
and I will do the rest.
This man just needs a day of rain
to put it to the test.
‘cause I can’t go on with my children crying
in the fields my crops have all been dying
just one drop Lord, early in the morning
just one tear Lord this is what I pray
Mary now is lying ill
and all the children lost
and I would give an eye for rain
or two would fit the cost
I die a bit each passing day
one drier than the last
I always knew my time would come
but never thought so fast.
And now I lie here all alone and crying
in the fields my dreams have all been dying
just take me Lord early in the morning
just one tear Lord, this is what I pray.
have I seen this all before?
and never does she wonder
when I wake up on the floor.
Not a drop in thirty days
has landed on my head
in the fields my plough just rusts
and all my work lies dead
and in the night I hear my woman crying
in the fields my crops are slowly dying
just one drop Lord early in the morning
just one tear Lord, this is what I pray
All the time I’ve been here Lord
I’ve done just what you’ve said
You know this prayer is not for me
but three young ones in bed.
All I need’s a little help
and I will do the rest.
This man just needs a day of rain
to put it to the test.
‘cause I can’t go on with my children crying
in the fields my crops have all been dying
just one drop Lord, early in the morning
just one tear Lord this is what I pray
Mary now is lying ill
and all the children lost
and I would give an eye for rain
or two would fit the cost
I die a bit each passing day
one drier than the last
I always knew my time would come
but never thought so fast.
And now I lie here all alone and crying
in the fields my dreams have all been dying
just take me Lord early in the morning
just one tear Lord, this is what I pray.