In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)

We'd get up before sun-up to get the work done up We'd work in the fields 'til the sun had gone down We've stood and we've cried as we have bristly watched A hailstorm beatin' our crops to the ground We've gone to bed hungry many nights in the past In the good old days when times were bad No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again In the good old days when times were bad I've seen daddy's hands break open and bleed And I've seen him work 'til he's stiff as a board And I've seen momma layin' in suffer and sickness In need of a doctor that we couldn't afford Anything at all was more than we had In the good old days when times were bad We've got up before and found ice on the floor Where the wind would blow snow through the cracks in the wall And I've walked many miles to an old country school With my lunch in the bib of my overalls Anything at all was more than we had In the good old days when times were bad No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again In the good old days when times were bad In the good old days when times were bad In the good old days when times were bad In the good old days