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Come you ladies and you gentlemen

And listen to my song

I’ll sing it to you right, but you might think it’s wrong

May make you mad, but I mean no harm

It’s all about the renters on Penny’s farm

It’s hard times in the country

Down on Penny’s farm

Now you move out on Penny’s farm

Plant a little crop of 'bacco and a little crop of corn

He’ll come around to plan and plot

Till he gets himself a mortgage

On everything you got

You go to the fields

And you work all day

Till way after dark, but you get no pay

Promise you meat or a little lard

It’s hard to be a renter on Penny’s farm

Now here’s George Penny come into town

With his wagon-load of peaches, not one of them sound

He’s got to have his money or somebody’s check

You pay him for a bushel

And you don’t get a peck

Then George Penny’s renters, they come into town

With their hands in their pockets, and their heads hanging down

Go in the store and the merchant will say:

«Your mortgage is due

And I’m looking for my pay.»

Goes down in his pocket with a trembling hand --

«Can't pay you all but I’ll pay you what I can.»

Then to the telephone the merchant makes a call

«They'll put you on the chain gang

If you don’t pay it all.»

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