Daddy Won't Sell the Farm

[Verse 1]

His cows get loose and run right through the fast-food parking lots

And Daddy gets calls from the mini-malls

When they're downwind from his hogs

When his tractor backs up traffic, the reception ain't too warm

The city's growin' around him, but daddy won't sell the farm

[Chorus]

You can't roll a rock up a hill that steep

You can't pull roots when they run that deep

He's gonna live and die in the eye of an urban storm

Daddy won't sell the farm

[Verse 2]

He worked and slaved, in '68, he bought these fields and trees

He raised his corn and a big red barn and a healthy family

He learned to love the woodlands, he can't stand to do 'em harm

There's concrete all around him, but daddy won't sell the farm

[Chorus]

You can't roll a rock up a hill that steep

You can't pull roots when they run that deep

He's gonna live and die in the eye of an urban storm

Daddy won't sell the farm

[Bridge]

One day he's gonna leave it all to me

And I'll start my own branch of the family tree

They'll get the message written on the roof of the barn

Daddy won't sell the farm

[Chorus]

You can't roll a rock up a hill that steep

You can't pull roots when they run that deep

He's gonna live and die in the eye of an urban storm

Daddy won't sell the farm

We're gonna live and die in the eye of an urban storm

Daddy won't sell the farm

Oh, you knew a country boy can survive

[Guitar Solo]