D                                       C             G 
Well there's cars on the driveway as you turn into the yard, 
    C               G            D 
The casket's in the living room, you look away and swallow hard. 
D                                   C                    G 
Someone hands you a bottle, and you don't  know who they are. 
         C             G            D 
Ain't it funny how you used to know everybody in these parts. 
 D                                           C                  G 
And you hardly knew the dead man, though you spoke a time or to two. 
         C                                   G                   D 
He had a wife and two small children, and he lived just like you do. 

Chorus: 
       D                    C               G 
And he died on his tractor, holdin' his end down, 
C           G                 D 
Forty acres left to plant and forty in the ground. 
D                                 C                   G 
But he never had a chance, that's what they're saying now. 
C                  G           D 
The bank was gonna walk in any day anyhow. 
D                                       C                  G 
And it makes you kind of wonder, as you watch the daylight burn, 
C            G        D 
Wonder if he knew it, wonder if he'd heard. 


D                                     C               G 
She's got a crooked smile and there's dark around her eyes. 
C                        G          D 
She says she knows she's got to get on with her life. 
D                               C                 G 
And you stand off the lawn, and look to where the sun sets. 
C                   G              D 
And someone says we ain't seen the last of it yet. 

Chorus 

D                                           C                G 
There's a crop of yellow sunflowers, in the field across the way 
C               G              D 
Makes you sorta grin as you're coming down the lane 
D                               C                 G 
Three hundred bucks a ton, it's what they said at plantin' time 
C                    G          D