[00:00.00]Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cents Meat - Pete Seeger
[00:11.06]Seven cent cotton and a forty cent meat
[00:13.26]How in the world can a poor man eat
[00:15.55]Flour up high and cotton down low
[00:17.90]How in the world can we raise the dough
[00:20.25]Clothes worn out shoes run down
[00:22.67]Ol' slouch hat with a hole in the crown
[00:24.95]Back nearly broken and fingers all sore
[00:27.33]Cotton gone down to rise no more
[00:40.61]Seven cent cotton and eight dollar pants
[00:42.66]Who in the world has got a chance
[00:45.44]We can't buy clothes we can't buy meat
[00:47.83]Too much cotton and not enough to eat
[00:50.10]Can't help each other what'll we do
[00:52.27]I can't explain it so it's up to you
[00:54.79]Seven cent cotton and two dollar hose
[00:57.07]Guess we'll have to do without any clothes
[01:05.83]Seven cent cotton and a forty cent meat
[01:08.00]How in the world can a poor man eat
[01:10.29]Mules in the barn no crop laid by
[01:12.70]Corn crib's empty and the cow's gone dry
[01:15.35]Well water low nearly outta sight
[01:17.42]Can't take a bath on a Saturday night
[01:19.77]No use talkin' any man is beat
[01:22.17]With seven cent cotton and a forty cent meat
[01:35.34]Seven cent cotton and a forty cent meat
[01:37.53]How in the world can a poor man eat
[01:39.85]Poor are gettin' poorer all around here
[01:42.25]Kids comin' regular every year
[01:44.60]Fatten our harvest take into town
[01:46.91]All we get is six cents a pound
[01:49.34]Very next day we have to buy it back
[01:51.59]Forty cents a pound in a paper sack