Depression Era

[Verse 1]
Corn bread and buttermilk
And better clean your plate
He lived through the great war
And came back to his home state

[Verse 2]
Married his young sweetheart
Never would complain
The world it keeps on changing
But he did never change

[Chorus]
Depression era
Lived to tell the tale
Depression era
And he don't never fail

[Verse 3]
The boy who called him daddy
Has grown in different ways
The things that made him happy
Have long since gone away

[Chorus]
Depression era
Kicked in in red clay mud
Depression era
Survival's in his blood

[Verse 4]
Biscuits and gravy
Eggs all the way
Fought in the navy
And made it back this way

[Verse 5]
Loved his beautiful wife
Now he's full of hurt
A Methodist all his life
But he don't go to church

[Chorus]
Depression era
Some things never fade
Depression era
In the modern age

[Verse 6]
He always rose above it
But nothing's as it seems
Anger has its pitfalls
Like living in your dreams

[Verse 7]
His dreams, they are fading
He'll make a final stand
He'd never hit a lady
But he just might kill a man

[Chorus]
Depression era
Lived to tell the tale
Depression era
He don't never fail

[Outro]
He don't never fail
He don't never fail