Mitch Sevy - Black Patch War

[Verso 1]


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The atc and the ppa got together to fight one another, neighbors that were once close friends 
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Became guerillas fighting each other 


[Verso 2]


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The ppa only had one third of the growers in the co-op, the atc offered more money to 
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Those that wouldn't join it 


[Refrão]


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Desperate men took matters in their own hands and formed a band called the night riders 
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Burning tobacco barns and shooting homes of the non compliant farmers 


[Verso 3]

 
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The beginning of the end was in hopkinsville with no help from the state militia 
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And by the first world war they could sell no more of that black patch tobacco 


[Verso 4]


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Poverty and despair was all that grew there for years and years there after 
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The curse of the black patch war brought on by their forefathers