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(wind blowing)

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I\'m in twilight years now.

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So, I\'m still hanging in there.

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If you don\'t think I\'m a
nervous wreck sitting here,

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I got news for you.

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(laughs)

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(swishing)

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I was here \'til I was 17, and
then there was nothing for me

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here, I just moved on.

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I came back about 30 years ago.

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I came back to fill
my parent\'s dream,

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at least try and keep
the home place together.

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(doors slamming)

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(clanking)

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When I first came here, I
decided to restore that tractor,

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because that was one
of my dad\'s tractors.

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And I remember when
we got those tractors,

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what a blessing it was from what
we had, those old lug tractors.

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He had starters on them; we
didn\'t have to crank \'em.

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Your steering was
100 times easier.

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Oh, that was luxury.

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It was some last thing
I\'m doing for my parents,

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because if it hadn\'t been my
dad\'s tractor, I don\'t know,

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wouldn\'t even look
at it probably.

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These small farms, they
are a thing of the past,

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and it\'s something I
have to face reality.

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If I had a relative or something
to give to, then it\'d be,

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it\'d be a little
bit different again.

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But since I haven\'t a single
relative that would be the least

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bit interested of
living here, well,

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I know when I\'m finished
the place is finished.

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There\'s a lot of
emotions involved

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while I was doing it, too.

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Because I remember all the hard
times and all the good times.

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(wind blowing)

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I\'m gonna put it up for sale,
and if feel I have a fair price

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for it, I\'m gonna sell it, and
what money I get will be equally

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divvied among the eight
nieces and nephews.

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That\'s about the best I figure
I could do, I don\'t know.

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When I\'m gone, that\'s the
end of the place, that\'s it,

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it\'s longer Pidt\'s farm.

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To me, it should be Pidt\'s farm
for the next 100 hundred years,

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but it\'s not, not
to be, you know.

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(wind blowing)