We'd get up before sun-up to get the work done up 我们会得到之前太阳到完成工作了

We'd work in the fields till the sun had gone down 我们会下地干活，直到太阳已经落山

We've stood and we've cried as we have bristly watched 我们已经站起来，我们哭了，因为我们已经看到林立

A hailstorm a' beatin' our crops to the ground 冰雹了“ beatin ”我们的庄稼地

We've gone to bed hungry many nights in the past 我们已经上床睡觉饿了很多个夜晚，在过去

In the good old days when times were bad 在过去的好时光年景坏的时候

   

No amount of money could buy from me 再多的钱可以买从我

The memories that I have of then 我有那么回忆

No amount of money could pay me 再多的钱也付了我

To go back and live through it again 回去再活过它

   

I've seen daddy's hands break open and bleed 我已经看到了爸爸的手破开和流血

And I've seen him work till he's stiff as a board 我见过他的工作，直到他僵硬的板

An' I've seen momma layin' in suffer and sickness 一个我见过的妈妈开始裁员在受苦，患病

In need of a doctor we couldn't afford 有需要的，我们买不起医生

Anything at all was more than we had 任何事情超过了我们有

In the good old days when times were bad 在过去的好时光年景坏的时候

   

We've got up before and found ice on the floor 我们之前已经站起身来，发现冰在地板上

Where the wind would blow snow through the cracks in the wall 那里的风会从墙上的裂缝吹雪

And I couldn't enjoy then, havin' a boyfriend 我不能享受的话，要有一个男朋友

I had nothing decent to wear at all 我没有什么像样的穿在所有

So I long for a love that I never had 所以，我渴望爱情，我从未有过

In the good old days when times were bad 在过去的好时光年景坏的时候

   

No amount of money could buy from me 再多的钱可以买从我

The memories that I have of then 我有那么回忆

No amount of money could pay me 再多的钱也付了我

To go back and live through it again 回去再活过它

   

In the good old days when times were bad 在过去的好时光年景坏的时候

In the good old days when times were bad 在过去的好时光年景坏的时候