Simple Man Songtext
von The Stray Birds

I drive my plough
From fields to fields
And my back.
Is nearly broken

But in my mind
I've been doing something right
Still my days
Seen to go unspoken

I am a simple man
I don't ask for nothing
Don't reach out for your hand
Let me die on my land

My father died
When I was still young
And I had.
To find life on my own

I was sleeping in the woods
I was living on bread crumbs
Make a boy feel so god-awful alone


And I am a simple man
I don't ask for nothing
Don't reach out for your hand
Let me die on my land

Well my mule has gone lame
And my work, my work is slow
These times .
They can bring me a little sorrow

Got no food on my table
No wood in my fire
And I pray some nights
I don't wake up tomorrow

Well I can't feed my children anymore
Now I hear death
Knocking around my door
Let me die in grief no more

And I am a simple man
I don't ask for nothing
Don't reach out for your hand
Let me die on my land