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 got so hard, people

A buzzard can't find a job

You know it 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

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

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

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

Lord have mercy

You know my money done got so funny

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

You know with that same old Franklin now

You could put everything you bought in one sac

Somebody give me a quarter

So I can change it out for this old lousy dime

Somebody give me a quarter

So I can change it out for this old rusted dime

So I can have fifteen more cent to put on this

Hard time of mine

So I can have fifteen more cents to put on

This hard time of mine