(Johnny) New Light

Johnny was a child
 When the wheels of progress came
 And slowed things down again
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 Oh, when the wheat was high
 And a big moon sailed in a rolling sky
 And the stars came down so close
 You could touch them just like rings
 And you felt so happy-sad
 It all seemed part of the same thing
 Oh, when the days ran wild
 And he was a child
 And later on when the tractors came
 
 And made light work, that would have taken days
 So with nothing else to do
 We just turned the days to rain
 It would take an endless chain of circumstance
 To get up and start again
 Oh, when the tractors came
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 The the field of grain.
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 Johnny, now those days have ended
 There's no more time on our side
 They say, in a little while
 It will all take on a new light.