Depression Era Songtext
von Patterson Hood

Cornbread and buttermilk
Better clean your plate
He lived through the Great War
And came back to his home state
Married his young sweetheart
Never would complain
The world it keeps on changing
But he ain′t never changed

Depression era
He lived to tell the tale
Depression era
And he don't ever fail

The boy who called him daddy
Has grown in different ways
The things that made him happy
Have long since gone away


Depression era
Caked in red clay mud
Depression era
Survival′s in his blood

Biscuits and gravy
Eggs all the way
Fought in the Navy
And made it back this way
Loved his beautiful wife
Now he's full of hurt
A Methodist all his life
But he don't go to church

Depression era
Some things never fade
Depression era
In the modern age


He always rose above it
But nothing′s as it seems
Anger has its pitfalls
Like living in your dreams
His dreams they are fading
He′ll make a final stand
He'd never hit a lady
But he just might kill a man

Depression era
He lived to tell the tale
Depression era
He don′t ever fail
He don't ever fail
He don′t ever fail