Merle Haggard – In The Good Old Days When Times Were Bad (Guitar)

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We got 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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And I've gone to bed hungry many nights as a lad

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In the good old days when times were bad

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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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I've seen Mama 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

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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 them

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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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We've got up before and found ice on the floor

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Where the wind blew snow through the cracks in the wall

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And I've walked many miles to an old country school

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With my lunch in the bib of my overalls

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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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No amount of money could buy from me

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The memories that I have of them

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No amount of money could pay me

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To go back and live through it again