Arkansas Hard Luck Blues

歌詞

spoken: Now folks I'm gonna tell you a little something now 'bout myself, You know I come from down in Arkansas I lived down there on a little farm where the land's so poor that you have to put fertilizer around the telephone poles before you can talk over the wires. But nevertheless it's a fine place to be from folks. Ya know, I was born down there in Arkansas, and I can remember the very first day when I was born, too. There's just three of us kids, we's lying there side by side on the bed. I heard the door slam and my old man he comin' in, he walked up to bed an' taken one look at us, he hollered my ma', she's in the kitchen gettin' dinner. He says "All right Liza, come on in here take out the one ya want", he says, "We'll drown the rest of them". Ya know, there's just seventeen of us kids, there's eight boys, seven girls and two other children. Now I had but little age on me when the old man he says, "Son, you're gonna hafta get out a here an make your own livin' from now on", he says, "I'm tired of feeding you around here" 'So I strock out, folks, and here's what's happened to me ever since... Ya know, I've been bawled out an balled up, held down and held up, bulldozed, black-jacked, walked on an chested, squeezed and mooched, stood for war tax, excess profit, state, dog, and sin tax, Liberty bonds, baby bonds, and the bonds of matrimony. I been Red Crossed, Green crossed and double-derossed folks. I been asked to help the society for John the Baptist, the D.A.R. Woman's corps, the Men's Stomach and Relief Corps I 've worked like heck, and been worked like heck folks. I've been drunk and got others drunk. Lost all I had and part of my furniture. Because I want to go around now an' spend some little part of that which I did earn and not go beg, borrow and steal, well, I've been cussed and discussed, boycotted, talked to and talked about, lied to and lied about, held up and hung up and I'm doggone nigh murdered. Now the only reason I'm sticking around now, folks, is to see just what in the heck is gonna happen next. Now folks if that ain't hard luck, just tell me what is