Pioneer - Joe Purdy

Go to sleep little Cory for you can’t understand

You’re a sick little baby in your mothers tired hands

Well your Daddy fetched the doctor but he had to use his gun

He’s always been reckless and he’s always on the run

Well the doctor says he’s worried cause your fever hadn’t broke

Gonna wrap you in a blanket gonna put you on a boat

Sail across the mississippi to a town where music plays

Gonna steak you penicillin make your fever go away

And when you grow up don’t you hate your momma and daddy

Cause they gave you everything that you ever had

And it ain’t no wonder that most dont make it

No wonder so many die, it ain’t easy to be a pioneer when the land that you

move to is dry

Wake up little Cory and get the water from the well

Count to nine Mississippi then your Daddy needs your help

Give the feed to the chickens and in the rows you plant the corn

Get the rations up for winter and build a fire to keep it warm

And you’ll learn to use a riffle and you’ll learn to use a knife

And you’ll learn how to hunt and you’ll learn how to fight

And you learn to pack a saddle and you take it off to town

Just a three days of riding sell the skinds and turn around

And when you grow up don’t you hate your Momma and Daddy

Cause they gave you everything that they ever had

And it ain’t no wonder that most don’t make it

No matter how hard they try, it ain’t easy to be a pioneer when the land that

you move to is dry

Go to sleep little Cory for you’re a grown boy

Gonna have to be the man now with your Daddy off to war

Keep your eye on the horses and keep your mother safe

Got two hungry sisters and another on the way

And when you grow up don’t you hate your Momma and Daddy

Cause they gave you everything that they ever had

And it ain’t no wonder that most don’t make it

No wonder so many die, it ain’t easy to be a pioneer when the land that you

move to is dry

It ain’t easy to be a pioneer when the land that you move to is dry