Times Ain't Like They Used To Was

from Coroner & Knives by Al Duvall

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lyrics

My name is Otmer Blonda I’m the oldest man alive The Lord plugged in the sun and moon when I was twenty-five And Joan of Arc was my old flame I fed the pilgrims when they came I wrote the writing on the wall So don’t tell me you know it all ‘cause I’m the man who does And times ain’t like they used to was, The good old days were better and the bad ones weren’t so worse The horses coughed up apples when you threw ‘em in reverse The pay was good the work was light it only rained on Sunday night The rabbits ran up to the hounds the peaches weighed a hundred pounds and you could wear the fuzz But times ain’t like they used to was, My name is Otmer Blonda how the ladies ran me down was bred in the country and the toast of the town It wasn’t hard to make them mine a jug of corn a loaf os swine They’d love me up and beg for more they’d swarm like flies around my door but they no longer buzz Oh times ain’t like they used to was, While shanking down the cattail road I’ve passed a lot of fools the game has always been the same they never learn the rules The groove is worn the record’s thin but still it has to play again My lonesome journey makes me cry so stake my heart and hope to die I can’t go on because times ain’t like they used to was