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They used to work mighty hard on the old back forty

Back when I was just a little lad

Digging up the fields and laying down the furrows

When the weather it was good or bad

I remember well what my daddy used to say

As he pushed along behind the plow:

«Jack's a good old mule, and there ain’t another like him,»

And the sweat was dripping off his brow

He sang, «Ol' jack, can you hear the wind blow?

Ol' Jack, can you feel the time go?

Ol' Jack, you don’t look like much

But you’ve always been a friend to me.»

Ol' Jack had been around for as long as I remember

And perhaps another year or so

And there never was a time when that floppy-eared critter

Didn’t put his heart in every row

When the crops came up, Daddy used to stop and smile

And he’d say he was a thankful man

For the little bit of time that he had under Heaven

To be living and to work the land

He sang, «Ol' jack, can you hear the wind blow?

Ol' Jack, can you feel the time go?

Ol' Jack, you don’t look like much

But you’ve always been a friend to me.»

When the snows fell down in the middle of the winter

Jack would pull us down along the road

In a rickety sleigh that we got from the neighbors

With two runners that were bent and bowed

Then we’d all stop awhile and we’d listen to the wind

As it whistled on the winter’s night

Jack would listen too, and Daddy’d sing in the snow

As it settled on the fields of white

He sang, «Ol' jack, can you hear the wind blow?

Ol' Jack, can you feel the time go?

Ol' Jack, you don’t look like much

But you’ve always been a friend to me.»

And so I stand in the fields of this little old farm

And I push along behind a plow

I remember all the times and the seasons and the wind

And the little lad that’s older now

I got an old mule and I call him Jack

And he puts his heart in every row

A woman and a son and on old-time song

And I love to sing it very low

I sing «Ol' jack, can you hear the wind blow?

Ol' Jack, can you feel the time go?

Ol' Jack, you don’t look like much

But you’ve always been a friend to me.»

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