Sharecropper's Son - Yonder Mountain String Band

Well, We moved here from Summers when I was 14

Worked this poor ground for bacon and beans

Landlord told me that hard times were near

Didn’t mean a thing cause they’re already here

Daylight till dark my works never done

Lord have mercy on the sharecropper’s Son.)

My Mama’s got the fever, and the babies sick too

Daddy’s down town just soakin' in the boo’s

He’s just out of prison and he ain’t going back

And a blood hound in Georgia can’t follow his track

We bought a new Mule brought him up from down south

He can kick tobacco right of your mouth

There’s water in the well and its barely out of sight

And i can’t take a bath on a Saturday night

Now the crops are all weathered no rain day or night

The preachers here for dinner we ain’t got a bite

There’s a (??) in our family ten daughter’s and a son and papa just told me

there’d be another one