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If I Beat You To the Barn

Farm boys, farm boys, go and do your chores Better take your hat for it’s sunny out-of-doors Farm boys, farm boys, gotta milk those cows Milk-em twice a day and feed the hungry sows Make your mother butter in the butter churn Argue with your brother when you think it’s not your turn Measure off the distance you both will have to run Where it is you’ll need to go to get the milking done Toe the mark to challenge your brother at the gate Divvy up the pails to balance out the weight Farm boys being farm boys down there on the farm And you’ll milk the cows if I beat you to the barn

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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