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We'd get up before sun-up to get the work done up We'd work in the fields 'til the sun had gone down We've stood and we've cried as we helplessly watched A hailstorm a-beatin' our crops to the ground We've gone to bed hungry many nights in the past In the good old days when times were bad No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again I've seen daddy's hands break open and bleed And I've seen him work 'til he's stiff as a board I've seen momma lyin' in suffer and 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 then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again We've got up before And found ice on the floor Where the wind had blown snow Through the cracks in the wall No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then