The Song Of Hard Times

You and meeeeee
Meeeeee and youuuuuuu
You and meeee eeee eeeee e
in an full colour movie
set during the Great Civil War.

The street is a scrambled displaced family.
The enemy has blown up the saloon;
the enemy has blown up the livery;
the enemy is looking for YouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUoooohhhhh>

Old Terry Van's General Store
it doesn't have walls or a roof anymore
but he rebuilt the floor
and when he finds the door he will open it wide open
"I'm back in business, i'm back in, i'm back in biz-
ten thousand dollars for that feathered hat. What do you what do you
think of that?
One hundred grand for a long blackened coat
worn by a nearly dead man.
I do I do I do whatever I can
in these hard times. Hard times for us all!
We must band together and get back to business and I'm back in business, I'm back in, I'm back in biz-"

"Yesterday these work gloves were priced at twenty."

"Today they are worth four thousand more."

"But you will accept a dozen scaredly laid chicken eggs."

".
Add a thirteenth and we'll call it square."

You and me walk through the wagon wheels
trying to find my splintered room.
"Dinner plans have been put on hold."
One half block off the central attack,
your friend the innkeeper has a room in the back.
You reluctantly agree
to share your single bed with me.
"The hotel will have to agree."

In these hard times in these very hard times,
compromising bedfellows
is the way
of these
very
hard
times.