We'd get up before sun-up 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 have bristly watched
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A hailstorm a' beatin' our crops to the ground
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We've gone to bed hungry many nights in the past
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In the good old days when times were bad
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No amount of money could buy from me
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The memories that I have of then
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No amount of money could pay me
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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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An' I've seen momma layin' in suffer and 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
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In the good old days when times were bad
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We've got up before and found ice on the floor
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Where the wind would blow snow through the cracks in the wall
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And I couldn't enjoy then, havin' a boyfriend
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I had nothing decent to wear at all
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So I long for a love that I never had
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In the good old days when times were bad
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No amount of money could buy from me
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The memories that I have of then
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No amount of money could pay me
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To go back and live through it again
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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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In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
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Dolly Parton |