歌词
Come you ladies and you gentlemen and listen to my song
Sing it to you right but you might think it's wrong
May make you mad but I mean no harm
It's just about the renters on penny's farm
It's hard times in the country
Out on penny's farm
You move out on Penny's farm
Plant a little crop of 'bacco and a little crop of corn
Come around to see you gonna flit and plot
Till he gets himself a mortgage
On everything you got
It's hard times in the country
Out on Penny's farm
Hasn't George Penny got a flattering mouth
Move you to the country in a little log house
Got nothing it but the cracks in the wall
He'll work you in the summer and rob you in the fall
It's hard times in the country
Out on Penny's farm
You go in the fields and you work all day
Way after night but you get no pay
Promise you meat or a little lard
It's hard to be a renter on Penny's farm
It's hard times in the country
Out on Penny's farm
Where's George Penny he'll come into town
With his wagon load of peaches not one of them is sound
He's got to have his money or somebody's check
You pay him for a bushel and you don't get a peck
It's hard times in the country
Out on Penny's farm
Where George Penny's renters they'll come into town
With their hands in their pockets and their head a hanging down
Go in the store and the merchant will say
Your mortgage is due and I'm looking for my pay
It's hard times in the country
Out on Penny's farm
Down in his pocket with a trembling hand
Can't pay you all but I'll pay you what I can
Then to the telephone the merchant make a call
Put you on the chain gang don't pay it all
It's hard times in the country
Out on Penny's farm