In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) Lyrics by Dolly Parton

0:09We'd get up before sun-up to get the work done up

0:14We'd work in the fields 'til the sun had gone down

0:21We've stood and we've cried as we have bristly watched

0:26A hailstorm beatin' our crops to the ground

0:33We've gone to bed hungry many nights in the past

0:37In the good old days when times were bad

0:47No amount of money could buy from me

0:52The memories that I have of then

0:56No amount of money could pay me

1:01To go back and live through it again

1:05In the good old days when times were bad

1:15I've seen daddy's hands break open and bleed

1:20And I've seen him work 'til he's stiff as a board

1:27And I've seen momma layin' in suffer and sickness

1:32In need of a doctor that we couldn't afford

1:39Anything at all was more than we had

1:44In the good old days when times were bad

1:53We've got up before and found ice on the floor

1:58Where the wind would blow snow through the cracks in the wall

2:05And I've walked many miles to an old country school

2:10With my lunch in the bib of my overalls

2:17Anything at all was more than we had

2:22In the good old days when times were bad

2:32No amount of money could buy from me

2:36The memories that I have of then

2:40No amount of money could pay me

2:45To go back and live through it again

2:49In the good old days when times were bad

2:59In the good old days when times were bad

3:09In the good old days when times were bad

3:19In the good old days

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