Hard Way to Make an Easy Living

Some people say he's a wealthy man But he built his house with his own two hands On a piece of land that's as far as you can see They call him lucky, but they don't know He's up and running when the rooster crows And he's still in the fields with his supper cold But if you ask me, It's a hard hard way to make your way In a world that don't care what you pay, What you earn or what you take, Or how much you're not giving Life's a tough old road to hoe, Trust in God with the seeds you sow, And always know it's a hard Hard way of making easy living His flatbed it was shiny and new back in 1992 It's been a few since he had 'im a year like that He ain't got time to complain, Hay on the ground and it looks like rain and, Pray it ain't like the twister that came back in '88 and laid everything flat It's a hard hard way to make your way In a world that don't care what you pay, What you earn or what you take, Or how much you're not giving Life's a tough old road to hoe, Trust in God with the seeds you sow, And always know it's a hard Hard way of making easy living They take for granted for what he's planted in that stubborn ground, But the cattle and the cotton know that they don't know in town It's a hard hard way to make your way In a world that don't care what you pay, What you earn or what you take, Or how much you're not giving Life's a tough old road to hoe, Trust in God with the seeds you sow, And always know it's a hard Hard way of making easy living Makin' easy living, Making easy living.