[Intro]
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[Prelude]

Blow up your T

V, throw away 

your paper
            
Go to the coun

try
              
and build your

 
 home
              
Plant a little

  
 garden
             
Eat a lot of p

 
eaches
             
Try and find  

           
Jesus all on y

our own.

[Pickup]


[Verse 1]

Few days befor

e he turned 80

He was sitting

 out back in a

 rocker

He said "what 

you been up to

 lately?"

I told him chasin' dollar

And in between

 sips of coffe

e

He poured this

 wisdom out
             
Said if you wa

              
nt my two cent

    
s on making a 

dollar count


[Chorus]
      
Buy dirt
              
Find the one y

              
ou can't live 

    
without
              
Get a ring, le

              
t your knee hi

       
t the ground
              
Do what you lo

              
ve but call it

  
 work
              
And throw a li

              
ttle money in 

              
the plate at c

  
hurch
              
Send your pray

              
ers up and you

              
r roots down d


eep
              
Add a few limb

              
s to your fami

     
ly tree
              
Watch their pe

              
ncils marks, a

       
nd the grass i

n the yard

All grow up

'Cause the tru

th about it is

It all goes by

 real quick
            
And You can't 

          
buy happi-ness
              
But you can bu

  
y dirt


[Verse 2]

Before you get

 caught on tha

t ladder

Let me tell yo

u what it's al

l about

Find you a few

 things that m

atter

That you can put a fence around
  N.C.
And then he laid it out


[Chorus]
    
Buy dirt
              
Find the one y

              
ou can't live 

    
without
              
Get a ring, le

              
t your knee hi

      
t the ground
              
Do what you lo

              
ve but call it

 
 work
              
And throw a li

              
ttle money in 

              
the plate at c

  
hurch
              
Send your pray

              
ers up and you

             
r roots down d

eep
              
Add a few limb

              
s to your fami

     
ly tree
              
And watch thei

              
r pencils mark

           
s, and the gra

ss in the yard

All grow up
             
'Cause the tru

            
th about it is

It all goes by real quick
            
You can't buy 

      
happi-ness
              
But you can bu

       
y dirt
             
You can buy di

      
rt

[Bridge]

And thank the 

good Lord for 

it
         N.C.
'Cause He ain't makin' any more of it

[Chorus]
      
Buy dirt
              
Find the one y

              
ou can't live 

    
without
              
Get a ring, le

              
t your knee hi

       
t the ground
              
Do what you lo

              
ve but call it

  
 work
              
And throw a li

              
ttle money in 

              
the plate at c

  
hurch
              
Send your pray

              
ers up and you

              
r roots down d


eep
              
Add a few limb

              
s to your fami

     
ly tree
              
Watch their pe

              
ncils marks, a

       
nd the grass i

n the yard

All grow up

'Cause the tru

th about it is

It all goes by

 real quick
            
And you can't 

          
buy happi-ness
              
But you can bu

  
y dirt