corn in the fields listen to the rice when the wind blows cross the water king harvest has surely come i work for the union cause she s so good to me and i m bound to come out on top that s where i should be i will hear ev ry word the boss may say for he s the one who hands me down my pay looks like this time i m gonna get to stay i m a union man now all the way the smell of the leaves from the magnolia trees in the meadow king harvest has surely come dry summer then comes fall which i depend on most of all hey rainmaker can t you hear my call please let these crops grow tall long enough i ve been up on skid row and it s plain to see i ve nothin to show i m glad to pay those union dues just don t judge me by my shoes scarecrow and a yellow moon and pretty soon a carnival on the edge of town king harvest has surely come last year this time wasn t no joke my whole barn went up in smoke my horse jethro well he went mad and i can t remember things bein so bad then there comes a man with a paper and a pen tellin us our hard times are about to end and then if they don t give us what we like he said men that s when you gotta go on strike corn in the fields listen to the rice when the wind blows cross the water king harvest has surely come