Rough Time Blues

Won't somebody give me a quarter so I can

Change it out for this old rusted dime?

Won't somebody give me a quarter so I can

Change it out for this old rusted dime?

So I have fifteen more cents put on this

Hard time of mine

They tell me time, it got so hard that a

Buzzard can't find a job

Well, now they tell me that the

That the time it got so hard, people

A buzzard can't find a job

You know it done got so rough out there

I be forced to steal, steal and rob

I would change the hard times for my

Grandma's last home cooked meal

Woo-ooh-ooh, y'all

I would change these hard times for my

Grandma's last home cooked meal

People, we be back in the twenties again

And it's almost time for a brand-new "Deal"

(Play the blues)

(Ah-ah-ot)

(Gon' keep pickin' it like that)

(Ain't gon' never get well)

Just as sure as a dollar says "In God We Trust"

Well, now just as sure as a dollar bill says "In God We Trust"

Lord, have mercy

You know my money done got so thin

I can't even ride the bus

At one time you could take a hundred dollars

And you'd need help takin' your groceries back

You could take one C-note and you would

Need help takin' your groceries back

(I remember, I remember)

You know with that same old Franklin now

You could put everything you bought in one sac

Somebody give me a quarter (somebody)

So I can change it out for this old lousy dime

(Somebody, somebody)

(Woo!)

Somebody give me a quarter

So I can change it out for this old rusted dime

So I can have fifteen more cents

Put on this (fifteen cent)

Hard time of mine (hard time of mine)

Well, oh well, oh well

So I can have fifteen more cents to put on

This hard time of mine