Well you can't grow a crop when it's dew at the plow

You can't get milk from an old dry cow

You can't keep a woman if you don't know how

It's bad when it's that a way and it's bad a way now

My crop floated out my old cow died my sweet woman left she was dis-satisfied

She broke my heart when she broke her vow

It's bad when it's that a way and it's bad a way now

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If a man's got a woman to fix his meals he may make a living for workin' in the fields

He may be happy with the mule and plow

It's bad when it's that a way and it's bad a way now

Well I don't have a woman with love that's real I don't have money to pay my bills

I just got hreartaches and broken vows

It's bad when it's that a way and it's bad a way now