There was a time we'd sit in the backyard cause the house would get so hot
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From the summer sun there was no way of sleepin'
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And you'd play your old guitar we'd fight mosquitos and enjoy
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You backyard concerts for we had no television
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We'd just begun our life as man and wife and hardships then
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Could scarcely scare us into quittin'
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Things were far from bein' fine we often dined upon a dime
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But there never was a time we didn't love
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And that Christmas brought our saddest days
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When your pride gave way when you told the kids
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There'd be no gifts cause we were broke
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Though their little tears of grief were so hard to see it didn't hurt me
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Like the lump I knew was in your throat
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It was then with arms entwined we both broke down and cried
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For it seemed like nothing good would ever come
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The doctor bills we couldn't pay they came and took our car away
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But there never was a time we didn't love
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Now there's an easy chair for my back a satin pillow for my head
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And the kids are wild about the brand new car
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You and I can order steak with all the trimmings and not worry
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If we've spent a dollar more than we can spare
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No wonder in our prayers we've thanked the man upstairs who led us through
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The years of raisin' kids and payin' bills
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And I think he guided us not because we were smart but just because
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There never was a time we didn't love
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No there never was a time never was a timethere never was a time we didn't love
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There Never Was A Time
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| Jeannie C. Riley |
