He climbs up on his John Deere shoves a plug of redman in his jaw

His eyes stretch cross the valley way down to where they're puttin' up a mall

His baseball cap says Kansas the Washington says how much he can grow

There's a bank note in his pocket that says in thirty days they'll have his home

It's hard living in a broken heartland it's enough to break a man and his beliefs

Lord give him strength to mend this broken heartland

Cause he's living proof of a dying breed



His sons gone off to college learning skills that'll get him off the farm

And his wife just keeps it all inside still he finds his only comfort in her arms

And this tractors been his treasure oh how could an auction measure its true worth

And every night he asks the father that he may never lose this mother earth

It's hard living in a broken heartland...

Lord give him strength...