1: Come you ladies and gentlemen listen to my song

Im singin it right but you may think its wrong

It may make you mad I dont mean no harm

Its all about the renters on Penneys farm

Hard times in the country down on Penneys farm.



2: Old George Penneys got a flattering mouth

He moves you to the country in a little old house

Holes in the windows cracks in the walls

Hell work you all summer and starve you in the fall

Hard times in the country down on Penneys farm.



3: You move out on Penneys farm

Plant a little crop of bacco and a little crop of corn

All year long you work that plot

Till you get yourself a mortgage at the end of the block

Hard times in the country down on Penneys farm.



4: Out in the fields you work all day

You work way past nine but you get no pay

They promise you meat and a little bit of lard

Say its hard to be a renter on Penneys farm

Hard times in the country down on Penneys farm.



5: Here George Penney come a rollin into town

With a wagon load of peaches none of them sound

Got to have his money or somebodys cheque

Pay him for a bushel but you dont get a peck

Hard times in the country down on Penneys farm.



6: George Penneys renters they come into town

Their hands in their pockets and their heads hangin down

They go in the store the merchant would say

Your mortgage is due Im a waitin for my pay

Hard times in the country down on Penneys farm.



7: So down in the pocket with a tremblin hand

I cant pay you all but Ill pay what I can

Then on the telephone the merchant makes a call

Throw you on the chain gang with no pay at all

Hard times in the country down on Penneys farm.