Merle Haggard & The Strangers - In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) Lyrics

Lyrics In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) - Merle Haggard , The Strangers



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 beating 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 amount of money could buy from me
The memories that I have of them
No amount 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 blew 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
No amount of money could buy from me
The memories that I have of them
No amount of money could pay me
To go back and live through it again



Writer(s): Dolly Parton


Merle Haggard & The Strangers - Down Every Road 1962-1994
Album Down Every Road 1962-1994
date of release
02-04-1996

1 Just Between the Two of Us
2 Skid Row (Down Every Road Version)
3 Sing a Sad Song
4 You Don't Even Try
5 Sam Hill
6 (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
7 If I Had Left It Up to You
8 I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
9 Swinging Doors
10 The Bottle Let Me Down (Down Every Road Version)
11 High On a Hilltop
12 I'll Look Over You
13 The Fugitive
14 House of Memories
15 All of Me Belongs to You
16 Mary's Mine
17 Someone Told My Story
18 Go Home
19 Whatever Happened to Me
20 Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive
21 I Threw Away the Rose
22 Branded Man
23 You Don't Have Very Far to Go
24 Somewhere Between
25 Sing Me Back Home
26 The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp
27 Seeing Eye Dog
28 The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde
29 Today I Started Loving You Again
30 Is This the Beginning of the End?
31 I'll Always Know
32 Mama Tried
33 In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
34 Teach Me to Forget
35 I'm Looking For My Mind
36 The Day the Rains Came
37 California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4)
38 I Take a Lot of Pride In What I Am
39 I'm Bringin' Home Good News
40 I Can't Hold Myself In Line
41 It Meant Goodbye to Me When You Said Hello to Him
42 Hungry Eyes
43 Silver Wings
44 Waitin' for a Train
45 Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (The Women Make a Fool Out of Me)
46 California Cottonfields
47 White Line Fever (Down Every Road Version)
48 Workin' Man Blues
49 Okie From Muskogee - Down Every Road Version
50 I Can't Stop Loving You (Live)
51 Huntsville
52 Irma Jackson
53 The Fightin' Side Of Me - December 1969
54 I'll Be a Hero (When I Strike) (March 1970)
55 Right or Wrong (Down Every Road Version)
56 Trouble In Mind
57 Stay a Little Longer
58 The Farmer's Daughter
59 Tulare Dust
60 Carolyn
61 Someday We'll Look Back
62 Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
63 Grandma Harp
64 It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
65 I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
66 If We Make It Through December
67 The Emptiest Arms in the World
68 Everybody's Had The Blues - Live Rehearsal
69 Things Aren't Funny Anymore
70 Honky Tonk Night Time Man
71 Holding Things Together
72 Here In Frisco
73 Kentucky Gambler
74 Always Wanting You
75 Living With the Shades Pulled Down
76 Running Kind
77 It's All in the Movies
78 The Way It Was In '51
79 I Never Go Around Mirrors
80 What Have You Got Planned Tonight, Diana
81 If We're Not Back in Love By Monday
82 Ramblin' Fever
83 It's Been a Great Afternoon
84 Red Bandana
85 Footlights
86 My Own Kind of Hat
87 Misery And Gin
88 Leonard
89 I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
90 Rainbow Stew
91 Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)
92 You Take Me For Granted
93 Pancho and Lefty
94 That's The Way Love Goes
95 Someday When Things Are Good
96 Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room
97 Kern River
98 Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star
99 In My Next Life




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