Lyr Add: Everything's Okay (Hank Williams)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Everything's Okay (Hank Williams)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jun 21 - 02:29 AM

Thanks, # - I'll correct the one above.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Everything's Okay (Hank Williams)
From: GUEST,#
Date: 17 Jun 21 - 11:13 PM

https://genius.com/Hank-williams-everythings-okay-lyrics

They have a cleaner copy of the lyrics. The only line that needs correction is

The corn meals gone and the meat's run out

Meals requires an apostrophe.

Subject: Lyr Add: Everything's Okay (Hank Williams)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Jun 21 - 12:49 AM

EVERYTHING'S OKAY
(Hank Williams)

I went to the country just the other day
To see my Uncle Bill and sorta pass the time away
I asked him how he'd been since last I'd passed his way
He rubbed his chin, and here's what he had to say

My wife's been sick, the young ones, too
And I'm darn near down with the flu
The cow's gone dry and the hens won't lay
But we're still a-livin', so everything's okay

The cow broke in the field and eat up the beans
The doggone rabbits they got the turnip greens
And my maw-in-law just moved in to stay
But we're still a-livin', so everything's okay

My land's so poor, so hard and yeller
You have to set on a sack of fertilizer to raise an umbreller
And it rains out here nearly every day
But we're still a-livin', so everything's okay

The hogs took the cholera and they've all done died
The bees got mad and they left the hive
The weevils got the corn and the rain rotted the hay
But we're still a-livin', so everything's okay

The porch rotted down and that's more expense
The darned old mule, he tore down the fence
The mortgage is due and I can't pay
But we're still a-livin', so everything's okay

The well's gone dry and I have to tote the water
Up from the spring about a mile and a quarter
My helper, he quit for the lack of pay
But we're still a-livin', so everything's okay

The house it leaks, it needs a new top
When it rains it wets everything we got
The chimney fell down just the other day
But we're still a-livin', so everything's okay

The corn meal's gone and the meat's run out
Ain't got nothin' to kill to put in the smokehouse
The preacher's comin' Sunday to spend the day
But we're still a-livin', so everything's okay

The canned stuff's spoiled, else the jar's got broke
And all we got left is one old William goat
We're gonna have a new baby about the first of May
But we're still a-livin', so everything's okay

My crop it rotted in the ground
I asked for another loan but the banker turned me down
But we're still a-livin' and we're prayin' for better days
So after all, everything's in pretty fair shape


Transcribed from this Hank Williams recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSW56KLVMD0

Alternate recording with slightly different lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOZ5B_swYhk