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've helplessly watched

A hailstorm a-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 sufferin' sickness

In need of a doctor 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'd walk 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