[00:02.58]Come you ladies and you gentlemen, a-listen to my song
[00:05.79]Sing it to you right, but you might think it’s wrong
[00:08.17]Just a little glimpse of a story I’ll tell
[00:10.91]’Bout an East Coast city that you all know well
[00:13.44]It’s hard times
[00:14.68]From the country, living’ down in New York town
[00:17.83]Old New York City is a friendly old town
[00:22.58]From Washington Heights to Harlem on down
[00:24.94]There’s a-mighty many people all milling’ all around
[00:27.56]They’ll kick you when you’re up and knock you when you’re down
[00:30.28]It’s hard times
[00:31.08]From the country, living’ down in New York town
[00:34.77]Well, the weekend is strong and the rich and the poor
[00:40.15]Get there together in roof an' no more
[00:42.63]Crowdin' up 'bove and crowdin' down below
[00:45.15]And someone disappears, you never even know
[00:47.58]And it's hard times from the country, livin' down in New York town
[00:52.10]It’s a mighty long ways from the Golden Gate
[00:56.35]To Rockefeller Plaza ’n’ the Empire State
[00:58.89]Mister Empire sets up as high as a bird
[01:01.44]Old Mister Rockefeller never says a word
[01:03.80]It’s hard times from the country
[01:06.16]Living’ down in New York town
[01:08.32]Well, it’s up in the morning’ trying’ to find a job of work
[01:12.82]Stand in one place till your feet begin to hurt
[01:14.88]If you got a lot o’ money you can make yourself merry
[01:17.33]If you only got a nickel, it’s the Staten Island Ferry
[01:20.01]And it’s hard times
[01:20.86]From the country, living’ down in New York town
[01:24.27]Mister Hudson come a-sailing down the stream
[01:29.81]And old Mister Minuet paid for his dream
[01:32.20]Bought your city on a one-way track
[01:34.39]’F I had my way I’d sell it right back
[01:37.21]And it’s hard times
[01:37.85]From the country, living’ down in New York town
[01:42.95]I’ll take all the smog in Cal-i-for-ne-ay
[01:45.67]’N’ every bit of dust in the Oklahoma plains
[01:48.11]’N’ the dirt in the caves of the Rocky Mountain mines
[01:50.56]It’s all much cleaner than the New York kind
[01:52.95]And it’s hard times
[01:54.08]In the country, living’ down in New York town
[01:58.60]So all you newsy people, spread the news around
[02:01.61]You can listen to m’ story, listen to m’ song
[02:03.87]You can step on my name, you can try ’n’ get me beat
[02:06.36]When I leave New York, I’ll be standing’ on my feet
[02:08.94]And it’s hard times
[02:09.96]From the country, living’ down in New York town