“How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?”
Description
Times are hard; goods used to be cheap, but they're now exorbitant. Schools are bad, but all children are sent nonetheless. Prohibition, although good, is inappropriately enforced. Preachers and doctors are corrupt.
Notes
Pity we don't have a keyword "bitching." - PJS
Cross references
- cf. "The Rigs of the Times" (subject)
Recordings
- New Lost City Ramblers, "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" (on NLCR09, NLCRCD1)
- Blind Alfred Reed, "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" (Victor V-40236, 1929; on HardTimes1)
References
- Darling-NAS, pp. 383-384, "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" (1 text)
- BI, RcHCPMSS