Listened to the Bentley Boys (not Bently) sing "Hard Times in the Country-Down on Penny's Farm" on a remastered cd today, and I will transcribe it in the next day or two. Amos has it down pretty well, perhaps from Fowke and Glazer; dunno if I will have additions. The Lomaxes have what they claim is the text in their "Folk Songs of North America," but they left out some and changed a couple of lines to suit themselves.
Fowke and Glazer compare the song's form to "Hard Times in the Mill," which may go back to around 1900.
Edith Fowke and Joe Glazer, 1960, "Songs of Work and Freedom," pp. 68-69 (Dolphin edition 1961).