Seven Cents Cotton and Forty Cents Meat

Seven cent cotton and forty cent meat

How in the world can a poor man eat

Flour up high and cotton down low

How in the world can we raise any dough

Clothes worn out, shoes urn down

Old slouch hat with a hole in the crown

Back nearly broken and fingers all sore

Cotton gone down to rise no more

Seven cent cotton and forty cent meat

How in the world can a poor man eat

Mules in the barn, no crops laid by

Corn crib empty and the cow's gone dry

Well water low, nearly out of sight

Can't take a bath on Saturdy night

No use talking, any man is beat

With seven cent cotton and forty cent meat

Seven cent cotton and eight dollar pants

Who in the world has got a chance

We can't buy clothes and we can't buy meat

Too much cotton and not enough to eat

Can't help each other, what shall wo do

I can't explain it so it's up to you

Seven cent cotton and two dollar hose

Guess we'll have to do without any clothes

Seven cent cotton and forty cent meat

How in the world can a poor man eat

Poor getting poorer all around here

Kids coming regular every year

Fatter our hogs, take 'em to town

All we get is six cents a pound 

Vety next day we have to buy it back

Forty cents a pound in a paper sac

Dave C