Artist/Band: Lake Fork Verne Tabs
Song: Rotating Pastures Tab
Rotating Pastures
Copyrighted by: Verne Garrison
Verne's Original Banjo Songs Vol XI
October 25, 2010
Banjo tuned E, Capo 1, Key of D (5thString F)
Back(D) before pesticides, (G) fertilizers and (D) such
We would rotate pastures, to help (A) crops so much
This (D) year a plot corn,then maybe soy(G)beans
With (D) clover-alfalfa-pasture (A7) in (D) between
This allowed the soil to (G) take rest once in (D) awhile
Being renewed by clover alfafa pasture was the (A) style
Milk(D) cows and calves were happy to (G) graze
Adding (D) fertilizer in their natural (A7) sort of (D) ways
This meant making or repairing a (G) fence line each (D) year
I spent a lot of time doing just that with Dad (A7) so dear
We (D) would dig holes for (G) quarter mile (D) run
Line up those crooked hedge (G) posts in the hot (A7) summer sun
Heavy leather gloves to protect our hands
While stretching and stapling the barbwire strands
Tamping the soil to firm the posts was the thing
Wire was so tight when you snapped it, it would ring
I miss those quiet days when I was a lad
Listening the songs and poems composed by my dad
We visited a lot as we worked along
Now I am blessed to recall those times in a song
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