Times Are Getting Hard
Words and Music by Lee Hays
(Chorus taken from Carl Sandburg's "American Songbag" 1927)


Times are gettin’ so hard boys
Money gettin’ so slim
If times don’t get too much better boys
I’m goin’ to have to leave this place

I told my love, I would buy her
A big old diamond ring
The way that things are a goin’ now
I can’t afford much of anything

Times are gettin’ so hard boys
Money gettin’ so slim
If times don’t get too much better boys
I’m goin’ to have to leave this place

I think I’ll go out to California
Where everything’s so green
Gonna have me the best damn farm
That you have ever seen

Times are gettin’ so hard boys
Money gettin’ so slim
If times don’t get too much better boys
I’m goin’ to have to leave this place

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