We get up before sunup to get the work done up
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We'd work in the fields till the sun had gone down
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We've stood and we've cried as we helplessly watched
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A hailstorm a beating our crops to the ground
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We've gone to bed hungry many nights in our past
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In the good old days when times were bad
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No ammount of money could buy from me the mem'ries that I have of them
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No ammount of money could pay me to go back and live through it again
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I've seen daddy's hands break open and bleed
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And I've seen him work till he's stiff as a board
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And I've seen mother lay and suffer in sickness
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In need of a doctor we couldn't afford
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Anything at all was more than we had in the good old days when times were bad
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We've got up before we found ice on the floor
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Where the wind would blew snow through the cracks in the wall
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And I couldn't enjoy then havin' the boy friend
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I had nothin' decent to wear at all
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So I longed for love that I never had in the good old days when times were bad
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No ammount of money...
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In the good old days when times were bad in the good old days when times were bad
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In The Good Old Days (when Times Were Bad)
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| Skeeter Davis |
