In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)

We got up before sunup to get the work done up We'd work in the fields till the sun had gone down We've stood and we've cried as we helplessly watched A hailstorm a beatin' our crops to the ground And I've gone to bed hungry many nights as a lad 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 till he's stiff as a board I've seen mama lay and suffer in 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 No ammount of money could buy from me The mem'ries that I have of them No ammount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again We've got up before we found ice on the floor Where the wind would blew snow Through the cracks in the wall And I've walked many miles to an old country school With my luch in a bag of my overalls Anything at all was more than we had In the good old days when times were bad No ammount of money could buy from me The mem'ries that I have of them No ammount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again --- In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) - Merle Haggard