Composer works in agriculture and realizes what great people she's working with, and she's tired of country guy songs portraying women as objects.  Women working on farms are ready to raise some hell when their work is done.   These women shine up their boots and head out to the Smokin' Moose where they order doubles and kick it on the dance floor.   Even pulling into the place they get excited because the parking lot is filled with 4X4 trucks. These women are proud of what they do, and the bridge is the telling line - "Our roots run deep like the crops we grow.  Yeah, we feed America, row by row by row."   
The women in this song are working hard and partying hard!


Farm Town

Roses in the Sand

The story of our Lady of Guadalupe and Juan Diego at Mt. Tepayac, Mexico, in 1531.   The Virgin of Guadalupe appears on this remote, rocky hill and tells Juan Diego to take a message to the bishop that she wants a church built in her honor, on that spot.   The bishop rejects Juan Diego twice, but finally asks for a sign.  Our Lady sends Juan Diego to the top of a hill to pick roses that do not grow there in the winter. He gathers them up in his tilma (like a long apron) and takes them to the bishop, opens his cloak and the flowers spill out on the floor.  The bishop and his priests kneel in front of Juan Diego, and to all of their amazement, an image of Our Lady is imprinted on Juan's tilma.   Our Lady of Guadalupe is revered in Latin America, especially Mexico, and the day she appeared is celebrated every year on the 12th of December, Doce de deciembre.

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