Hard Times ****

[tallpines]

Roof's still leakin', Vittles sceerce.
Wolf's at the door -- a-gowlin' fierce.

Ol' cow gone dry, both horses lame.
Merry Christmas just the same!

[ronbre]

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night

[SRSLADE]

I'm sending this card to tell you that taxes have taken away all the things I really needed:my workshop,my reindeer,my sleigh.So i'm making my rounds on a jack #ss,he's old,he's tired and slow.So if you don't see me this Christmas,i'm out on my #ss in the snow.SANTA.

[wogglebug]

Life gets tedious, don't it?

The sun comes up and the sun goes down.
The hands on the clock keep goin' around.
I just get up an' it's time to lay down.
Life gets tedious, don't it?

My shoe's untied but I don't really care.
I ain't a-figurin' on goin' nowhere.
I'd have to wash an' comb my hair.
That's just wasted effort.

Water in the well's gettin' lower an' lower.
Can't take a bath for six months or more
But I've heard it said, and it's true I'm sure,
That too much bathin'll weaken' you.

I open the door an' the flies swarm in.
I shut the door an' I'm sweatin' again.
I move too fast an' I crack my shin.
Just one durn thing after another.

My old brown mule, he must be sick.
I jabbed him in the rump with a pin on a stick.
He humped his back, but he wouldn't kick.
There's somethin' cockeyed somewhere.

There's a mouse chawin' on the pantry door.
He's been at it for a month or more.
When he gets through he'll sure be sore.
There ain't a durn thing in there.

Hound dog howlin', so folorn.
Laziest dog that ever was born.
He's howlin' 'cause he's sittin' on a thorn —
Just too tired to move over.

Tin roof leaks an' the chimney leans.
There's a hole in the seat of my ol' blue jeans.
An' I've et the last of the pork an' beans.
Jus' can't depend on nuthin'.

Cow's gone dry an' the hens won't lay.
Fish quit bitin' last Saturday.
Troubles pile up, day by day —
Now I'm gettin' dandruff.

Grief an' misery, pains an' woes.
Debts an' taxes, an' so it goes.
And I think I'm gettin' a cold in the nose …
A-choo!
Ah, life gets tasteless, don't it?

[soulsurvivor]

Many is the time
That I've been aching to say
Life ain't what I expected
And death ain't far away.

But I puts on my new glasses
That has the missing lens
And look at all around me
With a different tint of blends.

What I thought I saw
Has now changed for the better
The light is taking shape
And not everyone is out to get her.

So if you got trouble
And if you got woe
Try digging out them new glasses
Cause it helps, I know.

[geo in mi]

Buck Owens & Roy Clark


Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me

We figured she was rich, loaded to the hilt
And we figured she had class like the Vanderbilts
'Cause we had heard for years how she was so well reared
How was we to know they meant the way she was built

Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me