Everything’s Okay

Now I went to the country Just the other day To see my uncle Bill And pass some time away I asked how'd he'd been Since last I passed his way And he rubbed his chin And that's what he had to say He said, my wife's been sick My youngins too And I'm darn near down With the instamatic flu The cows gone dry And my hens won't lay But we're still living Everything's okay He said the hogs took the cholera And they've all done died The bees got mad And they left the hive The weevils got the corn And the rain got the hay But we're still living So everything's okay He said the porch rotted down That's more expense The darned old mule Tore down the fence The mortgage is due And I can't pay But we're still living So everything's okay Now the cow broke in the field And eat up the beans And the durn rabbits They got the turnip greens And my ma-in-law Just moved in to stay But we're still living So everything's okay Now my land's so poor So hard and yeller You have to set on a sack of fertilizer To raise an umbrella And it rains out here Just about every day But we're still living So everything's okay Now the well's gone dry And I got to tote the water Up from the spring About a mile and a quarter My helper, he quit For the lack of pay But we're still living So everything's okay Now the house it leaks And it needs a new top And every time it rains It wets everything we got The chimney fell down Just the other day But we're still living So everything's okay The corn meals gone And the meat's run out Got nothing to kill To put in the smokehouse The preacher's coming Sunday To spend the day But we're still living So everything's okay In fact if things were not better I'd like to lay me down and die