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HARD TIMES, TENDER PEOPLE
Words & music by Brad Yunek (Copyright/Brad Yunek 2008/BMI)
206 Brittany Loop
Sandpoint, ID 83864
(208) 263-1893
bradyunek@sandpoint.net
www.bradyunek.com
Member of Global Songwriters Connection

Verse 1:
Times were hard, you couldn’t see 
For all the dust that once was our cornfields
Back to back years short on rain 
Had drove us all down to our knees
From the table I heard daddy say, “Something’s got to give and soon I pray.
The note here says that we’ve got thirty days”


Verse 2:
The gavel came in four weeks time
The Deere and trucks were set out on the line
All the stock were pushed up in the pens
The auctioneer yelled, “Let’s begin!”
Hands and numbers in the air from all the people who had gathered there
Neighbors who had come from near and far


Chorus:
Hard times, tender people
The hardness of the day, it was more than we could bear
The end in sight, short and simple
All we’d have left from the hard times, were tender people


Verse 3:
We stood there and saw it go
Neighbors bought, all was sold
Daddy knew the end was near
Mama couldn’t see for all her tears
Piece by piece to satisfy a hole too deep, debt too high
How could we know the way this thing would end?


Chorus:

Bridge:
The sale was done, the debt had been paid
When the whole group turned and walked our way
Sayin’, “We have what we came here for”
Then they took all those notes, the key to the Deere, and said to my folks, "These are yours"                        

              
Final chorus:
Hard times, tender people
The hardness of the day was more than we could bear
Lookin’ back it was simple
And all we’d have left from the hard times
All we’d have left from the hard times
What we have left from the hard times are sweet, tender people