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The Times Were Hard
Eleven of us brown eyed kids; some green
eyes here and there
Not enough to go around, except the
love we shared
Our daddy was a part time painter,
and a full time drunkard too
He’d been that way since they bombed
Japan at then end of World War 2
And the times were hard
The times were hard gowing up
Our old aunt Mary would save her lard
And give it all to us
And sometimes the old man would stagger
home
With some candy bars and beer
Like he'd bought the whole damned grocery
store
And we're gonna eat for years
And about those times
I miss my dad
Somehow I miss a part of life
That made me oh so mad
'Cause a part of me still lives back
there
And somehow that don't seem fair
But I guess it was the hard times
Got me here
I remember once at Christmas, when the
county brought us toys
They voted us the neediest and us kids
sure loved their choice
And my brother came from Vietnam when
daddy passed away
But we buried more than daddy on that
cold October day
And the times were hard
The times were hard gowing up
Our old Aunt Mary would save her lard
And give it all to us
And it may sound harsh and I know it's
sad
And it makes me sad to say
But we never started livin'
‘Till our daddy passed away
And there are times
That I miss my dad
Yes, sometimes I miss a part of life
That makes me so damned mad
'Cause a part of me still lives back
there
And somehow that don't seem fair
But I guess it was the hard times
Got me here
Never had a toilet bowl ‘til 1967
First time that I heard it flush, thought
I‘d died and gone to heaven
A hot water heater and a fuel oil stove
was really hard to believe
But for the first time in the “60s”,
we left the 19th Century
And the times were hard
The times were hard gowin' up
Our old Aunt Mary would save her lard
And give it all to us
And lookin' back I'd have to say
If my ma weren't tough as nails
I’d be in some old insane ward
All hallow eyed and pale
And I miss those times
Though most were bad
Somehow I miss a part of life
That made me mostly sad
Cause a part of me still lives back
there
And somehow that don't seem fair
But I guess it was the hard times
Got me here
Yeah, I guess it was the hard times got me here
Hell, you know it was the hard times
got me here
©
2006 William C. Stephens
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