In The Good Old Days (when Times Were Bad) Lyrics - Dolly Parton

We'd get up before sun-up 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 have bristly 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 

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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 

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I've seen daddy's hands break open and bleed 

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

An' I've seen momma layin' in suffer and 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 couldn't enjoy then, havin' a boyfriend 

I had nothing decent to wear at all 

So I long for a love that I never had 

In the good old days when times were bad 

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