[00:08.49]Come you ladies and you gentlemen and listen to my song
[00:11.63]Sing it to you right but you might think it's wrong
[00:14.29]May make you mad but I mean no harm
[00:16.83]It's just about the renters on penny's farm
[00:19.33]It's hard times in the country
[00:22.29]Out on penny's farm
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[00:24.91]You move out on Penny's farm
[00:27.03]Plant a little crop of 'bacco and a little crop of corn
[00:29.71]Come around to see you gonna flit and plot
[00:31.81]Till he gets himself a mortgage
[00:33.26]On everything you got
[00:34.59]It's hard times in the country
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[00:37.20]Out on Penny's farm
[00:38.92]
[00:53.87]Hasn't George Penny got a flattering mouth
[00:55.98]Move you to the country in a little log house
[00:58.38]Got nothing it but the cracks in the wall
[01:00.62]He'll work you in the summer and rob you in the fall
[01:03.32]It's hard times in the country
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[01:05.81]Out on Penny's farm
[01:07.13]
[01:07.75]You go in the fields and you work all day
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[01:10.25]Way after night but you get no pay
[01:12.29]
[01:12.88]Promise you meat or a little lard
[01:15.06]It's hard to be a renter on Penny's farm
[01:17.50]It's hard times in the country
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[01:20.06]Out on Penny's farm
[01:21.56]
[01:36.22]Where's George Penny he'll come into town
[01:38.11]With his wagon load of peaches not one of them is sound
[01:40.32]He's got to have his money or somebody's check
[01:42.80]You pay him for a bushel and you don't get a peck
[01:45.15]It's hard times in the country
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[01:47.73]Out on Penny's farm
[01:49.04]
[01:49.78]Where George Penny's renters they'll come into town
[01:52.04]With their hands in their pockets and their head a hanging down
[01:54.43]Go in the store and the merchant will say
[01:56.71]Your mortgage is due and I'm looking for my pay
[01:59.11]It's hard times in the country
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[02:01.39]Out on Penny's farm
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[02:17.53]Down in his pocket with a trembling hand
[02:19.59]Can't pay you all but I'll pay you what I can
[02:21.88]Then to the telephone the merchant make a call
[02:24.23]Put you on the chain gang don't pay it all
[02:26.53]It's hard times in the country
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[02:28.62]Out on Penny's farm