《Down On Penny’s Farm》歌词

[00:00:00] Down On Penny's Farm - Bentley Boys

[00:00:00] Written by：Traditional

[00:00:08] Come you ladies and you gentlemen and listen to my song

[00:00:11] Sing it to you right but you might think it's wrong

[00:00:14] May make you mad but I mean no harm

[00:00:16] It's just about the renters on penny's farm

[00:00:19] It's hard times in the country

[00:00:22] Out on penny's farm

[00:00:24] You move out on Penny's farm

[00:00:27] Plant a little crop of 'bacco and a little crop of corn

[00:00:29] Come around to see you gonna flit and plot

[00:00:31] Till he gets himself a mortgage

[00:00:33] On everything you got

[00:00:34] It's hard times in the country

[00:00:37] Out on Penny's farm

[00:00:53] Hasn't George Penny got a flattering mouth

[00:00:55] Move you to the country in a little log house

[00:00:58] Got nothing it but the cracks in the wall

[00:01:00] He'll work you in the summer and rob you in the fall

[00:01:03] It's hard times in the country

[00:01:05] Out on Penny's farm

[00:01:07] You go in the fields and you work all day

[00:01:10] Way after night but you get no pay

[00:01:12] Promise you meat or a little lard

[00:01:15] It's hard to be a renter on Penny's farm

[00:01:17] It's hard times in the country

[00:01:20] Out on Penny's farm

[00:01:36] Where's George Penny he'll come into town

[00:01:38] With his wagon load of peaches not one of them is sound

[00:01:40] He's got to have his money or somebody's check

[00:01:42] You pay him for a bushel and you don't get a peck

[00:01:45] It's hard times in the country

[00:01:47] Out on Penny's farm

[00:01:49] Where George Penny's renters they'll come into town

[00:01:52] With their hands in their pockets and their head a hanging down

[00:01:54] Go in the store and the merchant will say

[00:01:56] Your mortgage is due and I'm looking for my pay

[00:01:59] It's hard times in the country

[00:02:01] Out on Penny's farm

[00:02:17] Down in his pocket with a trembling hand

[00:02:19] Can't pay you all but I'll pay you what I can

[00:02:21] Then to the telephone the merchant make a call

[00:02:24] Put you on the chain gang don't pay it all

[00:02:26] It's hard times in the country

[00:02:28] Out on Penny's farm