Gary Woods, song-writer

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Hard In Patches (Amber Rose)

He dropped in warm and friendly
When I left town for the land
Let-me-help-you were his kind words if you ever need a hand
Gets hard out here in patches
What with droughts and floods in turn
But that aside I'm here for good, not yet too old to learn
Yeah hard in patches
But it's never too late to learn
Hard in patches

Gets hard in patches living here
Hard in patches on the land
Some farm-folk been here lots of years
Still fail to understand
I've only been three years myself
But until I die's the plan
Gets hard in patches day to day
Hard in patches on the land
Yeah hard in patches

He told a humble story
Of his journey, swallowed pride
Sought refuge in the bush from some place flash the other side
Gets hard in patches living here
What with droughts and floods in turn
But what's a man to do he said, take note, begin to learn
Yeah hard in patches
But it's never too late to learn
Hard in patches

Gets hard in patches living here
Hard in patches on the land
Some farm-folk been here lots of years
Still fail to understand
I've only been three years myself
But until I die's the plan
Gets hard in patches day to day
Hard in patches on the land
Yeah hard in patches

Three years he'd been a loner
Cut-adrift his married life
Strode away from something flash he'd built up with his wife
Got hard back there in patches
Ego-people, big ideas
Give me the patches way out here, bad memory disappears
Yeah hard in patches
But harder there than here
Hard in patches

Gets hard in patches living here
Hard in patches on the land
Some farm-folk been here lots of years
Still fail to understand
I've only been three years myself
But until I die's the plan
Gets hard in patches day to day
Hard in patches on the land
Yeah hard in patches

He stays with me I stay with him
We're closer than best friends
Together four years down his track, some parting shot he sends
Got hard in patches city-life
Big egos, big ideas
Give me our patches here as one, the memory disappears
Yeah hard in patches
Big egos, big ideas
Hard in patches

Gets hard in patches everywhere
Not just out on the land
City, country, here and there
These days I understand
United one short year we've been
But until we die's the plan
Gets hard in patches otherwise
Yeah hard in patches otherwise
Too hard in patches otherwise
Oh hard in patches
Yeah hard in patches
So hard
Yeah hard in patches
So hard in patches


Copyright Gary Woods, April 9th, 2014. APRA/AMCOS Reg: GW45920112