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 she said i should be i will hear every 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 a dry summer and then come fall which i depend on most of all hey rainmaker can t you hear the call please let these crops grow tall long enough i ve been up on skid row and it s plain to see i ve nothing to show i m glad to pay those union dues just don t judge me by my shoes a scarecrow and a yellow moon pretty soon the 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 our horse jethro well he went mad and i can t ever remember things being that bad now here come a man with a paper and 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 come2