Intro
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Verse
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I hear the coyotes calling
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Their melancholy pierces the night
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I feel those wheat fields waving
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Calling me with their collective spite
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I know tomorrow morning
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Fate will dictate my part
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But I never believed in fate
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Because I know the coyote's heart
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You're 200 miles away
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On the other side of the state
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And I'm going round and round in a wheat field
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Trying to beat the rain
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The sun goes down; it won't matter much
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We'll keep on cutting 'till the straw gets tough
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I'll be free when we get through
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I'll head back to town and back to you
Outside the chaff is blowing
Inside my muscles ache
Outside the sun is setting
In it I see your face
I'll be damned if I leave
Before the harvest moon assumes a crescent shape
I'd hit the road with the hammer down
If only I could these fetters break
I see the storm clouds rolling
Oklahoma's gift: the rain
I see the weather, unlike you,
Never minded the grain
The squall line across the field moves
Just like your life crossed mine
As I roll the tarp I think
I should have been done in time