Song Lyrics Unknown - Migrant Song    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> Migrant Song Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Unknown Music Title/Track: Migrant Song Theme ID: 4905 Album: N/A THE MIGRANT SONG or SEE HOW THE LAND YIELDS UP HER TREASURE by Peter Krug Up from El Centro and San Bernadino Bakersfield, Fresno, Meder, Merced Salinas and Stockton, up to Sacramento Santa Rosa and Red Bluff and on back again A hundred thousand men, women, and children They flow on the highways, the old and the young In an unending cycle of sowing and reaping The long valley's labor can never be done And see how the land yields up her treasures To man's patient hand Up in the morning an hour before dawning They're stretching and yawning, rubbing sleep from their eyes With the last stars still quivering in the morning breeze shivering The sun is just lightening the easternmost skies Soon in the big open trucks they will travel Crammed in together, crowded like cattle Over pavement, over gravel, over dirt roll the wheels Out to the orchards, the vineyards, the fields Soon in the long rows the swift hands are toiling In the day's growing heat, in the dusty rows boiling The sun presses down like a hot heavy hand At the backs of the laborers working the land In the shade of the oak trees by the side of the field rows Dirty and shoeless the young children play While fathers and mothers, older sisters and brothers Toil on their knees in the heat of the day Down from the highway come men in brown uniforms Questioning, checking and searching and soon One or two whose papers are not in order Are gone from the crew in the hot afternoon When the sun has descended and the long day is ended It's back to the trucks wiping sweat from their eyes Tired and weary and covered all over With fruit juice and brown dust, with sweat and black flies When there's crops in the field rows and grapes in the vineyards When the limbs in the orchards bow down to the ground There's food on the table, there's clothes for the children There's singing and dancing and joy all around But with skies grey as iron and icy winds whistling And frost in the field and no work to be found Through cold nights they huddle and hunger and struggle Till spring brings back sweetness and life to the ground Copyright Peter Krug @work @farm @migrant see also DEPORTE and PASTPLEN filename[ HOWLAND SF ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Miners Lifeguard, Mingulay Boat Song, Minstrel Boy, Miss Bailey, Miss Smith, Miss Suzy Had A Steamboat, Mister Fox, Mistletoe Bough, Moammar Said To His Men, Mobile, Modiewark, Molly And Tenbrooks, Molly Bawn Polly Vaughn, Molly Brannigan, Molly Malone, Monongahela Sal, Month Of May, Months, Monymustk Lads, Moon Dancing, Moonshiner, More Verses To Humoresque, More Wood, Mormond Braes, Morning Has Broken, Moscow Nights, Mother Is The Battle Over, Must Be Santa, Namibia Anthem Text, Nancy Brown, Nauru Anthem Text, Nauru Native Anthem Text, Navvy Boots, Nde Colores, Neath The Crust Of The Old Apple Pie, Ned Of The Hill, Nell Flahertys Drake, Nelly Bly, Neros Expedition, Net Hauling Song, Netherlands Native Anthem Text, Never Throw A Lighted Lamp At Mother, New Chum Crutcher, New Harmony, New York Girls, New Zealand Anthem Text, New Zealand Native Anthem Text, Nice People Like Us, Nickelodeon, Nigeria Anthem Text, Other Unknown song Lyrics 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics A Fenian Song Lyrics A Fool Such As I Lyrics A Friend Like You Lyrics A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics A Horse Named Bill Lyrics A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics A Living Wage Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Unknown Prophets Lyrics Unleashed Lyrics Unleashed Power Lyrics Unlimited Nation Lyrics Unlimited Sound Lyrics UNLOCO Lyrics Unlord Lyrics UNLV Lyrics Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics Uno Svenningsson Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy