Patto - Government Man lyrics

Got word from home this morning it
Told a sorry tale indeed
It was hard to bare the news about the
Family I broke right down and cried
Last time I'd been home calling
Things were really looking fine
It broke my heart to hear
About the mess your in
And now you've gone and moved
Man came without a warning riding
On a title deed
He'd come back to tell them all
They'd have to leave the land
Didn't tell them why
20 years you worked the base line now
You told you got to leave
It ain't fair to ask a man
To lay his living down his family got to eat
You don't buy the government man
My pa had took it bad
He tried to make a one man stand
Walked out alone and tried to fight
My mama begged the government man to
Call off all his men
If he promises not to take his life we'll
Be moved out of here by the dawn
And you'll never, never see us no more

God gives the good the answer
Working hard trying to be
But, it's tough to see the other
Side getting rich and fat
When you hardly make the pay
Drained dry from working too hard you
Got to find another home
It was hard to break the land
And a crop to grow they never understand

You don't buy the government man
My pa had took it bad
He tried to make a one man stand
Walked out alone and tried to fight
My mama begged the government man to
Call off all his men
If he promises not to take his life we'll
Be moved out of here by the dawn
And you'll never, never see us no more

Government man got a heart of stone
Run up the land and took away their home
Going South
In the end I had to hit the road home

You don't buy the government man
My pa had took it bad
He tried to make a one man stand
Walked out alone and tried to fight
My mama begged the government man to
Call off all his men
If he promises not to take his life we'll
Be moved out of here by the dawn
And you'll never, never see us no more