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00:00My name is Eric Miller. I'm 17. This farm's been in my family for over 100 years.
00:04I'm Spencer Sage. I'm 19 years old. I work out here on the farm and it's not very easy.
00:11It's been the family for three generations and I plan on taking it over after college.
00:17I'm Tyler Young, 19. This farm's been in my family for four generations.
00:22Prices are going down and fuel is going up and it's just getting really hard to make a dollar out
00:29there.
00:30It's about everybody I know has got a second job to help support, but that's the farm.
00:34About two years ago, I moved away for about three months.
00:37Being away from the farm just killed me. I had to come back.
00:41It's the only thing I know and love.
00:55He gets up before the dawn, packs a lunch and a thermos full of coffee.
01:05It's another day in the dusty haze. Those burning rays are wearing down his body.
01:15Diesel's worth the price of gold. It's the cheapest grain he's ever sold.
01:26He just takes the tractor another round and pulls a plow across the ground and sends up another prayer.
01:38He says, Lord, I never complain. I never ask why.
01:43Please don't let my dreams run dry Underneath, underneath this Amarillo sky
01:57That hill storm back in 83 Sure did take a toll on his family
02:07He stayed strong and carried on Just like his dad and granddad did before me
02:16On his knees every night he prays Please let my crops and children grow
02:24Cause that's all he's ever known
02:28He just takes the tractor another round And pulls a plow across the ground
02:36And sends up another prayer
02:40He says, Lord, I never complain. I never ask why. Please don't let my dreams run dry
02:50Underneath, underneath this Amarillo sky
03:05And he takes the tractor another round
03:09And he takes the tractor another round
03:15And he takes the tractor another round
03:15And he takes the tractor another round
03:17He says, I never complain. I never ask why. Please don't let my dreams run dry
03:27Underneath, underneath this Amarillo sky
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