Jim Hurst - Sunnyside Garden Chords

[Intro]
C    G    C
 
[Verse]
C                   F               C
Every morning, they roll him to the window
             G          C
Greeted by a warm April sun
                     F          C
He's got old habits, so hard to break
D7                       G
Up with the dawn is just one
 C                   F         C
Across the road from Sunnyside Garden
          G          C
He sees a dusty John Deere
                    F         C
He counts the times it passes by
                  G            C    C7
And dreams of the harvest this year
 
[Chorus]
       F                  C
He's a farmer, a rancher, scholar of dirt
                                      G
Well-worn overalls and an old flannel shirt
  F                   C          F
A husband, a daddy, a veteran so proud
     C                         G              C
He'd give anything if he could still work the ground
 
[Verse 2]
C                    F         C
Across the road from Sunnyside Garden
               G           C
A young man is working the land
                         F           C
He sees him there in the window each morning
D7                   G
Waving an old feeble hand
C              F                C
He goes around getting the work done
          G           C
Toiling until the day ends
                   F          C
Thinking about the man in the window
            G               C   C7
Knowing someday it might be him
 
[Chorus]
       F                  C
He's a farmer, a rancher, scholar of dirt
                                     G
Faded blue jeans and a Merle Haggard shirt
  F                   C          F
A husband, a daddy, a veteran so proud
C                            G               C      A
He thanks the good Lord that he can work the ground
 
[Verse 3]
D                   G         D
Then one morning at Sunnyside Garden
                 A              D
They said, ("You have visitors, Ben")
                        G          D
He turned to see and he couldn't believe
   E7                          A
As twenty young farmers walked in
     D                    G         D
They took him across from Sunnyside Garden
             A          D
Hoisting him up in that seat
                            G
Tears hit the ground as the planter went down
      D           A          D
Once again, he is sowing the seeds
 
[Chorus]
        G                     D
They're farmers and ranchers, scholars of dirt
                                    A
Souls of the heartland, salt of the earth
G                     D           G
Husbands and daddies, veterans so proud
D                         A              D
God bless the farmers who still work the ground
 
[Outro]
    G         D           A           D
God bless the farmers who nurture the ground