As usual, typing faster than I was thinking. Cox's tune is a more serious recomposition of Miller's than I managed to imply. Miller's tune is more like the chorus of Cox's, though they're not identical. What Cox adds is a verse. From the Bill Elliott (as Jim Baird) version on "Hard Times Come Again No More", some extra couplets. The Miller version is much shorter and features a lot of instrumental solos between verses, with only 4 sung stanzas, while Elliott squeezes 12 onto his allotted 10" of shellac.. (first 2 verses as in Miller) Depression he will go To the place where there's no snow 'Stead of filling up our jail We'll fill up our dinner pail We'll throw out our worn-out shoes Drive away the hungry blues (as in Miller's third verse)) We'll ride handsome, wide, and far In our little touring car We'll have money in our jeans, We'll have more than turnip greens We've had misery in full Lived on promises and bull We'll sit in our easy chair Not a worry or a care At the sun we'll smile, be durned Though our tonsils get sunburned We can rest our weary heads As we sleep in feather beds
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