Lyr Req: Hallie Lonnigan (Tom Russell)

Subject: RE lyrics to Hallie Lonnigan by Tom Russell
From: GUEST,L Peden
Date: 25 Sep 08 - 05:17 PM

Does anyone have the lyrics to Hallie Lonnigan by Tom Russell and will you post them

Subject: RE: Lyr req: Hallie Lonnigan (Tom Russell)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 11:50 PM

Somebody mentioned this song on a thread about domestic violence, and I see this lyrics request hadn't been answered. Can anyone provide lyrics?
Thanks.

-Joe-

Subject: Lyr Add: HALLIE LONNIGAN (Tom Russell)
From: deepdoc1
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 03:24 PM

HALLIE LONNIGAN
By Tom Russell

My name is Hallie Lonnigan; I married Walter Jones
For better or for worse, so said the Reverend Dr. Stone;
But the better times are all used up and the worse times took control,
Then drinkin' took my Walter; may the Lord protect his soul!

Alone with two young kids to raise out on the western plains,
My children harmonized with wolves and sang just like the rain,
But haulin' hay an' water were the desp'rate daily facts,
And the years have carved their mem'ries in the muscles of my back.

Hallie Lonnigan will tell these truths to you:
Hard time's the only times I ever knew.
Hard luck's the only horse I ever drew.
Hard work's the only way I made it through.

Then I married for convenience' sake a trader from in town,
A blacksmith name o' Charlie Hawk who'd court me on his rounds,
But he'd paw me like a wolverine and there's cheatin' in his blood.
He fell upon my butcher knife and crawled off through the mud.

Well, no one was the wiser when ol' Charlie disappeared,
And me and them poor children never shed one single tear.
We can run this place on our own; don't need no drunks or cheats,
And the men they step aside now when I walk down Market Street.

Hallie Lonnigan will tell these truths to you:
Hard time's the only times I ever knew.
Hard luck's the only horse I ever drew.
Hard work's the only way I made it through.

This land was conquered by brave men, your hist'ry books will say:
Proud men upon fast horses drove the Indian away.
My name is Hallie Lonnigan; I'll have you all to know
That the secret of your hist'ry's in a workin' woman's soul.

Hallie Lonnigan will tell these truths to you:
Hard time's the only times I ever knew.
Hard luck's the only horse I ever drew.
Hard work's the only way I made it through.
Hard work's the only way I made it through.