D (finger-picking) D D C G Well there's cars on the driveway as you turn into the yard, C G D D The casket's in the living room, you look away and swallow hard. Someone hands you a bottle, and you don't know who they are. Ain't it funny how you used to know everybody in these parts. And you hardly knew the dead man, though you spoke a time or two. He had a wife and two small children, and he lived just like you do. Chorus: And he died on his tractor, holdin' his end down: Forty acres left to plant and forty in the ground. But he never had a chance, that's what they're saying now. The bank was gonna walk in any day anyhow. And it makes you kind of wonder, as you watch the daylight burn Wonder if he knew it, wonder if he'd heard. She's got a crooked smile and there's dark around her eyes. She says she knows she got to get on with her life. And you stand off the lawn, and look to where the sun sets. And someone says we ain't seen the last of it yet. (Chorus) There's a crop of yellow sunflowers in a field across the way. Makes you sort of grin as you're coming down the lane. Three hundred bucks a ton, that's what they said at plantin' time, But when it came to harvest, it wasn't worth a dime. SUNFLOWERS Fred J. Eaglesmith