Changing Times

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The grasses grow tall until the hay it is mown Then the fields lie still till the new seed is sown Many children standing here have watched the grass wave in the wind We're the ones who stand here now, but many others will again Long, long ago these fields and the crops that they grew here Might decide a family's fate for, say, another year Like the grasses that grow tall and get cut down for the hay So generations moved in here, made their marks and moved away And the fields lie still till the new seed is sown And the grasses grow tall till the hay it is mown Many children standing here have watched the grass wave in the wind We're the ones who stand here now, but many others will again After clearing off the land and piling up their long stone walls They walked for miles for the seed, then they hoped the good rains fall And if the rains come down right and all the crops grew tall and strong Families had enough to eat for another winter long The grasses grow tall until the hay it is mown Then the fields lie still till the new seed is sown Many children standing here have watched the grass wave in the wind We're the ones who stand here now, but many others will again Perhaps the time will come again when these fields will mean more And we'll learn to care for them as others did so long before And like the seed that's newly sown and springs to life with sun and rain People's lives may grow to know the value of these fields again And the fields lie still till the new seed is sown And the grasses grow tall till the hay it is mown Many children standing here have watched the grass wave in the wind We're the ones who stand here now, but many others will again We're the ones who live here now, but many others will again