Come, you ladies and you gentlemen, and listen to my song.
Sing it to your right, though you might think it's wrong.
May it hurt your feelings, but I mean you no harm.
It's all about the rangers on Penny's Farm.
Hard times in the country down on Penny's Farm.
You move out on Penny's Farm, plant a little crop of becca
and a little crop of corn.
Come around to see you got the flip and flop.
Tell you got yourself a mortgage on everything you got.
Hard times in the country down on Penny's Farm.
Hasn't George Penny got a flatterin' mouth?
Move you to the country in a little log house.
Got no windows but the cracks in the wall.
Yeah, a worky and a son of a ran a star view in the fall.
Hard times in the country down on Penny's Farm.
You go to the field and you work all day.
Way into the night but you get no pay.
Promises a meal and a little piece of lard.
Hard to be a ranger on Penny's Farm.
Hard times in the country down on Penny's Farm.
Here's George Penny comin' into town
with a wagon load of peaches, not one of them sound.
Got to have his money or somebody's check.
You pay him for a bushel and you don't get a peck.
Hard times in the country down on Penny's Farm.
George Penny rangers are comin' into town
with their hands in their pockets
and their heads hangin' down.
Go to the store and the merchant will say,
the mortgage is due, I'm lookin' for my pay.
Hard times in the country down on Penny's Farm.
Down in the pocket with a tremblin' hand.
Won't pay you now but I'll pay you what I can.
And to the telephone merchant make a call.
Put you on the chain gang, don't pay at all.
It's hard times in the country down on Penny's Farm.
Hard times in the country down on Penny's Farm.