Song Description
The land of milk & honey might not be all you expect
Song Length |
3:41 |
Genre |
Country - Traditional |
Lyrics
Manure that?s four-foot deep puts off fumes that you can see
I shoveled one whole winter?s worth in the summer of ?83
Working Berger?s dairy farm, I couldn?t help
Thinking wouldn?t it be nice to leave this job to someone else
Looking back, I must confess
I hoped for life of peace and rest
I hoped to find a place to escape the pain somehow
A land of milk & honey
All golden white & sunny
But milk?s not the only thing that comes from a cow
Sunday morning breakfast with my daughter, just turned five
We were eating our toast and honey when something caught her eye
She said ?Daddy please run outside and catch that butterfly for me?
I ran barefoot out the door and stepped right onto a bee
Oh the land of milk & honey
All golden, white and sunny
What?s wrong with searching for an earthly paradise?
While honey?s on your tongue
Don?t be surprised if you get stung
Cause ain?t no place on earth where they get honey from butterflies
For anything worthwhile, there?s some sacrifice it takes
Life?s not always just a bowl of honey corn flakes
Oh the land of milk & honey
All golden, white and sunny
I finally found some peace once it occurred to me
Any land of milk & honey
Be it golden white and sunny
Any land of milk and honey just comes with manure and bees
Copyright 2005 Reese Watt