Chords for DOLLY PARTON TALKS TO HER PARENTS & SINGS 'IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS'

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It's been really hard for you, Daddy, working in the fields.
I remember most of my life, I remember seeing you down here
in these fields and other fields and places where we lived.
But you never did seem to complain or gripe about it.
Only thing I ever griped on you about when we was thinning
the corn out, there'd be three stalks in the hill,
and we'd pull the little stalk out.
And I noticed you were pulling the big stalks out.
I said, darling, don't do that.
She said, I'm pulling the [B] big stalks out
and giving them to the little one that can't. _ _ _ _
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[Gb] _ _ [Em] Of course, I know we was always scared to death of Daddy.
We never was scared of Mama.
Mama, she used to threaten us with Daddy.
We'd do things.
She'd say, I'm going to tell on [Gb] your Daddy when he gets home.
And we'd try to butter her up all day
to keep her from tattling on us, because Daddy hardly ever
would whip us, unless he really caught us doing something.
And usually when he did, we wouldn't tell on each other.
He'd have to whip us all in a group.
And we'd start hollering, oh, Daddy, oh, Daddy, oh, Daddy,
oh, before he ever even hit us.
[Bm] I remember he used to line us up when he did have to whip us.
And I'd always want to be the last one in line
until the first one got it.
And then I'd wish I was the first one.
But it's a wonder you hadn't killed us.
I know some of us was pretty mean. _ _ _
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Remember how we used to sit here on this [B] porch, all of us
Oh, yeah, I was singing and young kids would cry.
Daddy always said you were the best singer of any of us
in the whole bunch.
Do you still think that?
[Bb] He done that so I wouldn't burn his cornbread. _
[Em] Daddy used to sing [Bm] along with us,
but you didn't do all that much singing.
We could always tell when Daddy come up the road, boy,
he'd just be singing to the top of his lungs.
[Gb] And Mama said, run and get the slop buckets.
Your daddy's drunk and you know he can't drink.
You always get sick.
So you [B] don't have to tell all that.
I'm not telling all of it.
The good part, you used to make moonshine.
No, a little, not much.
Not much.
No, because I left him once when he was_
_ I left him.
I told him I wouldn't come back till he quit.
He never did make any more.
That was though in the real early days.
Yeah.
But I don't want to go back to it again, though.
Yeah, well, we won't make you.
[G] You won't have to no more. _ _ _ _
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_ We'd get up before sun up
To get the work done [F] up
We'd work in the fields till the sun had gone [Gm] down
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We've stood and [G] we've cried and we've helplessly [F] watched
A hail storm of beating our crops [C] to the ground
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Anything at all [C] was more than we had
In those good [F] old days _ _
[C] When times were [Gm] bad
[C] When we were growing up [F] here, they used to use a sled
a lot of times the way we got in and out of these mountains
was either on horseback or [Bb] we walked.
And daddy used to [C] bring our supplies [F] in and out on a sled like this.
A lot of times when somebody was sick, he'd haul us out to the main road
and catch a ride to town.
I don't know how [Bb] long that old sled's been sitting there,
but it [C] makes me kind [F] of homesick for the good old days.
The mind _ _ from me, [Bb] the memories [C] that I [F] have of then
The mind _ _ ain't [Bb] made to go back and [C] live through [F] it again
[C] In those good [F] old days
When times [C] were [G] bad _ _
[C] _ I've [G] seen daddy's hand break open and bleed
[F] And I've seen him walk to this [C] dear visible place _ _ _
And I've seen [G] mama lay [C] and suffer in sickness
[F] In need of a doctor we couldn't afford
[Gm] _ _ [C] _ They [F] never complained about [C] the hard times we had
In those good [F] old days
_ _ When [C] times were bad
You know, most people have like six [F] rooms and a bath.
We had three rooms and a pad.
And we had running water [Bb] when we'd run and get it.
[F] In fact, we used to run down here this whole spring
and it's some of the best water you could ever taste.
In fact, when I got here today, the first [Bb] thing I wanted to do
was get a drink of water and see if it [F] still tasted as good, and it did.
And [C] we used to keep our milk and butter [F] here
because we didn't have a refrigerator
because we didn't have electricity when I used to live here in this old [C] place.
And it kept it real cool, and it tasted good.
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