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