"Future Farmers" What's the future Future Farmers For this country way of life When a man can't make a living With eighty acres and a wife When those bankers start foreclosing When the prices start to fall What's the future Future Farmers With your back against the wall Tell me now What's the use of going busted Just for living on the land Is it worth what they've been paying Just to try and make a stand When they plow those good crops under Just to try and start again What's the future Future Farmers Is there any way to win I want to know What's the future Future Farmers Will we all wind up in town And be working in those factories With a time clock going 'round When we look into the distance In the cold, grey light of dawn What's the future Future Farmers Will the family farm be gone What's the future Future Farmers Will they squeeze out the little man Will those big farm corporations Have us eating outta their hands Will they put those farms in pasture 'Till the prices hit the sky What's the future Future Farmers With people hungry enough to die Tell me one last time -- Copyright Brooks Bros Publishers All rights reserved Writer: Jake Brooks Management: Nashville Music Group Performance by Jake Brooks & The Hired Hands Recorded at DigiMix Audio, Nashville, TN Mastered by Emmit Brooks, Las Cruces, NM Released on Red Barn Records (cassette) in 1989 and re-released on CDBaby (digital download in 2014)