Family Farm (Live Acoustic from the 2019 Greatest Hits Tour - Tanunda SA)

[Verse 1]
I rode the boundary of our place for the very last time
And I was leaving for Sydney on the mail train, I made up my mind
When Dad died in June, I'd never seen my mother so frail
Three months later we had to put the family farm up for sale

[Chorus]
There was a five gallon mailbox on a post by the road
Where I'd turn up the valley and wind my way home
I can see Mom and Dad arm in arm
In my memories of the family farm

[Verse 2]
No horses, no valleys, no crossings, no hinterland streams
Just a heart full of songs, a guitar, and a swag full of dreams
In a dark little room I'd scratch out my letters to Mom
And a part of me driftеd back north with every single onе

[Chorus]
To that five gallon mailbox on a post by the road
Where I'd turn up the valley and wind my way home
I can see Mom and Dad arm in arm
In my memories of the family farm

[Verse 3]
We laid Mom to rest next to Dad the year the farm sold
And months turned to years as I followed the call of the road
I was just passin' through when I saw that real estate sign
And that very day I put my name to what had always been mine

[Chorus]
By that five gallon mailbox on a post by the road
Where I'd turn up the valley and wind my way home
I can see Mom and Dad arm in arm
In my memories of the family farm
I can see Mom and Dad arm in arm
In my memories of the family farm

[Outro]
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