The rooster's crowin' at the crack of dawn
Rows of corn are brown the rain is gone
Used to thrive in this ol' valley green
Now it's dust and drought yesterday's dream
The barn's doors creak and the paint's all peeled
Fields once fertile now refuse to yield
Daddy's hands worked these lands so true
Now the soil's tired there's nothin' it can do
Hard times in Hickory Hollow
Dreams fade like the evening shadow
We gave our all but the earth said no
Nowhere left for this old heart to go
Mama's garden's bare the well run dry
Sold the plow to make it by
Memories linger of the crops we've sown
But the bank's cold callous left us all alone
Hard times in Hickory Hollow
Dreams fade like the evening shadow
We gave our all but the earth said no
Nowhere left for this old heart to go
Hard times in Hickory Hollow
Dreams fade like the evening shadow
We gave our all but the earth said no
Nowhere left for this old heart to go