"The family farm was my home as a kid. This song is inspired by my Grandpa - James Louis DeFriece - a small dairy farmer in Ohio. He was my best friend and mentor. I learned to drive on his old Ford tractor sitting on his lap to reach the steering wheel. My uncle James gave me my first real guitar and taught me to play the classic country licks you hear in this song.

Lyrics

Back to the Farm
INTRO - C C F F G G7 C
C F
V 1 I wish that I could go back to the farm again
G F C
Back to the simple life, that my Grandpa lived
F
Where the roosters crowed all day long behind the old gray barn
G G7 C
Oh I wish that I could go back there again.
C F
V2 I can still see my grandpa grinning that toothless grin
G F C
Sitting on the milk house stool, calling the cows to come in
F
Each one by name, they knew their place in the milking line
G G7 C
I close my eyes and I’m back there again.
Am F C
Ch My uncle sold the farm way back in ’89
G G7 C C7
but those memories, still linger on today
F G C C/B Am Am/G
Planting some corn, slopping the hogs, Sunday Dinner time
F C G G7
The sweet summer smell of new mown hay.
SOLO with Harmonica - C C F F G G7 C
C F
V3 He drove an old Ford tractor painted red and gray
G F C
used to sit me on his lap to reach the steering wheel
F
We’d plow and disk and bale some hay, back and forth across the fields
G G7 C
Grandpa and me, we’d drive all day.
REPEAT CHORUS
REPEAT V1
TAG LAST LINE - I close my eye and I’m back there again
OUTRO - C C F F G G7 C
words & music by Anthony S. Gerogosian, copyright 1996 all rights reserved