Farmers Son

by Chris Hoar

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Just before the outbreak of the Second World War, a father looks back at the loss of his son during the First World War.

All proceeds go to the Royal British Legion.

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I am a farmer's son, I toil this land of chalk and stone.
Each field I have ploughed each crop I've sown.
Each day I have laboured till day is done.

To me was given a son, so strong he grew, so strong in hand.
He took to my plough and tended this land,
but things move with haste in foreign lands.

And those that are born are the tithes of the moon.
And we repeat all before, with no lessons learned.

Letters I was sent, from a distant place of distant events.
From a world unknown and so many lives spent.
Time marks the pass of innocence.

I gaze across my fields, deep shadows cast on its golden yield.
Again the wind moves from the east,
on those who came from this peace.

And the old fail the young, with each life that is gone.
It cannot be undone, it cannot be returned.

Each time I break, I still look upon his face
never changing in time, or losing his grace.
A photographs a lifetime, replaced.

If I had known, what sorrow and pain these years had done,
that such a loss would not turn the will of men,
to lay down their arms and stay their hand.

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released October 26, 2018
Farmers Son - Written by Chris Hoar

Chris Hoar - Acoustic Guitar and Vocals
Phil Cooper - Guitar and Backing Vocals
Sharon Martin - Violin
Pete Willis - Double Bass

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Phil Cooper.
phil-cooper.co.uk

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