[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I close my eyes and a wide blue sky
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Is spreading out before me
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And I'm hearing that old engine crank
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Again in all its glory
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It's a faded memory
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That I go back to now and then
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I'd give my right arm to be on that farm
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With the John Deere H again

[Verse 2]
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The John Deere H was a row crop tractor
G            C
Ours was a '43
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And I was still too young to drive
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But I knew she was made for me
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It would be like heaven to start her up
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And till that stubborn ground
    C                G
I'd climb up on that metal seat
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And make up my own tractor sounds

[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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The H was made in a factory
G            C
Down in Waterloo
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But my dad had got her second hand
     C                  D
From some folks that we knew
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She wasn't sleek and she wasn't fast
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Took a while to get her going
        C                  G
But she beat a horse and a hand held plow
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For cutting hay and hoeing

[Verse 4]
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Then to my surprise he said one night
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"Boy, it's time you got to learning"
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Then he showed me how to check the spark
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And set that flywheel turning
C          G
I was only eight years old
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Had to stand to reach the pedals
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But I was so proud you'd have thought
              D                G
That I'd just won some kind of medal

[Interlude]
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[Verse 5]
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In the spring she pulled a corn planter
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In the newly thawed out ground
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And at harvest time she'd help make hay
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Before the fields turned brown
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She cut alfalfa with a sickle mower
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The sweet smell filled the sky
       C                    G
And in dreams at night we'd still be working
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The John Deere H and I

[Verse 6]
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That old machine was a farm kid's dream
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None like her before or after
       Em            G
But we let her go in hopes of knowing
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So-called greener pastures
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Though I've been around the world
              G            C
My life's the envy of most men
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I'd give my right hand for that piece of land
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And the John Deere H again
         Em                 G       C
I'd give my right arm to be on that farm
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With the John Deere H again

[Outro]
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