Fields Have Turned Brown, The Lyrics - The Stanley Brothers

I left my old home to ramble this country 

My mother and dad said, "Son don't go wrong 

Remember that God will always watch over you 

And we will be waiting for you here at home" 

"Son, don't go astray", was what they both told me 

"Remember that love for God can be found" 

But now they're both gone, this letter just told me 

For years they've been dead, the fields have turned brown 

For many long years I traveled in sorrow 

No thoughts of the day when I would return 

Now as I go home and find no one waiting 

The price I have paid to live and to learn 

"Son, don't go astray", was what they both told me 

"Remember that love for God can be found" 

But now they're both gone, this letter just told me 

For years they've been dead, the fields have turned brown