Natalie Merchant Lyrics

Album: The House Carpenter's Daughter

Down On Penny's Farm Lyrics

Come here ladies and gentleman

 Listen to my song

 Play it to you right

 But you may think it wrong

 May make you mad

 But I mean no harm

 It's just about the renters

 On Penny's farm

 It's a hard time in the country

 Down on Penny's farm 

 

 Go into the fields

 And you work all day

 Deep into the night

 But you get no pay

 Promise you some meat

 Or a little bucket of lard

 It's hard to make a living

 On Penny's farm

 It's a hard time in the country

 Down on Penny's farm 

 

 Hear George Penny

 He'll be coming into town

 With a wagon load of peaches

 Not a one of them sound

 Gotta get his money

 Gotta get a check

 Pay you for a bushel

 But you never get a peck

 It's a hard time in the country

 Down on Penny's farm 

 

 George Penny's renters

 They be coming into town

 With their hands in their pockets

 And their heads hanging down

 Go to the merchant

 And the merchant he'll say, 

 "your mortgage it is due

 And I'm looking for my pay" 

 It's a hard time in the country

 Down on Penny's farm 

 

 Deep into his pocket

 With a trembling hand, 

 "can't pay you what I owe

 But I'll pay you what I can" 

 Down to the merchant

 And the merchant make a call

 Put you on the chain gang

 Don't pay at all

 It's a hard time in the country

 Down on Penny's farm