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Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cents Meat

Pete Seeger2019年7月16日

Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cents Meat 歌词

Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cents Meat - Pete Seeger

Seven cent cotton and a forty cent meat

How in the world can a poor man eat

Flour up high and cotton down low

How in the world can we raise the dough

Clothes worn out shoes run down

Ol' slouch hat with a hole in the crown

Back nearly broken and fingers all sore

Cotton gone down to rise no more

Seven cent cotton and eight dollar pants

Who in the world has got a chance

We can't buy clothes we can't buy meat

Too much cotton and not enough to eat

Can't help each other what'll we do

I can't explain it so it's up to you

Seven cent cotton and two dollar hose

Guess we'll have to do without any clothes

Seven cent cotton and a forty cent meat

How in the world can a poor man eat

Mules in the barn no crop laid by

Corn crib's empty and the cow's gone dry

Well water low nearly outta sight

Can't take a bath on a Saturday night

No use talkin' any man is beat

With seven cent cotton and a forty cent meat

Seven cent cotton and a forty cent meat

How in the world can a poor man eat

Poor are gettin' poorer all around here

Kids comin' regular every year

Fatten our harvest take into town

All we get is six cents a pound

Very next day we have to buy it back

 

Forty cents a pound in a paper sack