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
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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