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In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)

Dolly Parton

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Dolly Parton

Performer

Buck Trent

Banjo

Chip Young

Guitar

George McCormick

George McCormick

Guitar

Hargus Robbins

Piano

J. Babcock

Vocals

Jerry Carrigan

Drums

June Page

Vocals

Lloyd Green

Steel Guitar

Mack Magaha

Fiddle

Roy Husky Jr.

Bass

Wayne Moss

Guitar

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Dolly Parton

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Bob Ferguson

Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

We'd get up before sun-up

To get the work done up

We'd work in the fields

Till the sun had gone down

[Verse 2]

We've stood and we've cried

As we've helplessly watched

A hailstorm a-beatin'

Our crops to the ground

[Verse 3]

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

In the good old days when times were bad

[Verse 4]

No amount of money could buy from me

The memories I have of them

No amount of money could pay me

To go back and live through it again

[Verse 5]

I've seen Daddy's hands

Break open and bleed

And I've seen him work

Till he's stiff as a board

[Verse 6]

And I've seen Momma lay

And suffer in sickness

In need of a doctor

We couldn't afford

[Verse 7]

Anything at all was more than we had

In the good old days when times were bad

[Verse 8]

We've got up before

And found ice on the floor

Where the wind would blow snow

Through the cracks in the wall

[Verse 9]

And I couldn't enjoy then

Having a boyfriend

I had nothing decent

To wear at all

[Verse 10]

So I longed for a love that I never had

In the good old days when times were bad

[Verse 11]

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

In the good old days when times were bad

In the good old days when times were bad

Written by: Dolly Parton