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Eli's Cotton Gin

from Wildflowers by Jonathan Byrd

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California farm town. The end of the day. You can smell the feed lot ten miles away. If I had a dollar for every head out there, I'd be in Pebble Beach smoking herb like a millionaire.

Smoke from a tractor, dust from the ground. Be nigh on two weeks, it'll still be around. Outside Fresno, it's flat all day. If it was clear as a bell you couldn't see nothin' anyway.

From Gilroy to Sequoia, there's enough work to be done to keep a fella like me busy 'til kingdom come. If you stood on the back of my combine, you'd still never see the end of the San Joaquin and Eli's cotton gin.

People everywhere, I can understand. You're hard working folks. I'm a hard working man. With our lives and with our hands, we feed the land to feed the land.

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from Wildflowers, released January 1, 2001
Robbie Link on bass
John Boulding on dobro

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Jonathan Byrd Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Preacher's kid, Gulf War veteran, award-winning songwriter, Youtuber, teacher, and creativity coach from North Carolina.

“One of the top 50 songwriters of the last 50 years. ” — Chicago Tribune

“...a folk singer with the heart of a rock 'n' roll band.” — K. Oliver, Free Times.
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