Susan Cattaneo - Abide
A black blizzard's
coming 'cross the plains
The dust kicks up and
it's nighttime for days
Wheat dried up in 1935
When the crows came round
it felt like a sign
Abide
The world's wicked ways
Abide
Accept what you cannot change
But in this land that
God's forgotten
Fear and hunger come a knockin'
Farmer widowed by the sun
And the rain don't come
Rusted cars on hot brown earth
Make a noose round
this bone white church
Raise a hand to the
stained glass air
But faith only feeds a man's despair
Abide
The world's wicked ways
Abide
Accept what you cannot change
But in this land that
God's forgotten
Fear and hunger come a knockin'
Farmer widowed by the sun
And the rain don't come
still rain don't come
They said that rain
would follow the plow
But that tight-fisted
sky won't give up clouds
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust now
Abide
The world's wicked ways
Abide
Accept what you cannot change
But in this land that God's forgotten
Fear and hunger come a knockin'
Farmer widowed by the sun
And the rain don't come
And the rain don't come