In The Good Old Days (when Times Were Bad) Lyrics - Skeeter Davis

We get 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 beating our crops to the ground 

We've gone to bed hungry many nights in our past 

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 

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

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

And I've seen mother 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 

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 couldn't enjoy then havin' the boy friend 

I had nothin' decent to wear at all 

So I longed for love that I never had in the good old days when times were bad 

No ammount of money... 

In the good old days when times were bad in the good old days when times were bad