Depression Era
[Verse 1]
Corn bread and buttermilk
And better clean your plate
He lived through the great war
And came back to his home state
[Verse 2]
Married his young sweetheart
Never would complain
The world it keeps on changing
But he did never change
[Chorus]
Depression era
Lived to tell the tale
Depression era
And he don't never fail
[Verse 3]
The boy who called him daddy
Has grown in different ways
The things that made him happy
Have long since gone away
[Chorus]
Depression era
Kicked in in red clay mud
Depression era
Survival's in his blood
[Verse 4]
Biscuits and gravy
Eggs all the way
Fought in the navy
And made it back this way
[Verse 5]
Loved his beautiful wife
Now he's full of hurt
A Methodist all his life
But he don't go to church
[Chorus]
Depression era
Some things never fade
Depression era
In the modern age
[Verse 6]
He always rose above it
But nothing's as it seems
Anger has its pitfalls
Like living in your dreams
[Verse 7]
His dreams, they are fading
He'll make a final stand
He'd never hit a lady
But he just might kill a man
[Chorus]
Depression era
Lived to tell the tale
Depression era
He don't never fail
[Outro]
He don't never fail
He don't never fail