In The Good Old Days (when Times Were Bad) Lyrics - Merle Haggard

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