Story Behind The Song
"I wrote this song soon after I moved off the farm. Not brave enough or too guilty to write about dairy farming I used sharecropping as the metaphor. But it's my father and a version of me in the lyric".
Song Description
The narrator misses most what he ran from as a child but it can't be lived again.
| Song Length |
4:40 |
Genre |
Country - Bluegrass, Country - Americana |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Moving, Content |
Subject |
Poverty, Life |
| Similar Artists |
Woody Guthrie, Francis Scott Key, and Irving Berli |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |