Dolly Parton — In the Good Old Days When Times Were Bad

[Verse 1] We'd get up before sunup to get the work done up We'd work in the fields 'til the sun had gone down We've stood and we've cried as we've helplessly 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 [Chorus] 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 In the good old days when times were bad [Verse 2] I've seen Daddy's hands break open and bleed And I've seen him work 'til he's stiff as a board And I've seen Momma 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 [Verse 3] 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've walked many miles to an old country school With my lunch in the bib of my overalls Anything at all was more than we had In the good old days when times were bad [Chorus] 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 In the good old days when times were bad In the good old days when times were bad