My mother told me
Before she passed away
Said son when I´m gone
Don´t forget to pray
´Cause there´ll be hard times

Lord those hard times
Who knows better than I?

Well I soon found out
Just what she meant
When I had to pawn my clothes
Just to pay the rent
Talkin´ ´about hard times
Hard times
Who knows better than I?

I had a woman
Who was always around
But when I lost my money
She put me down
Talkin´ ´bout hard times
Hard times
Yeah,yeah, who knows better than I?

Lord, one of these days
There´ll be no sorrow
When I pass away
And no more hard times
Hard times
Yeah, yeah, who knows better than I
Yeah, yeah, who knows better than I?