My name is Hallie Lonnigan I married Walter Jones For better or for worse So said the Reverend Doctor Stone But the better times are all used up And the worst times took control Then the drinking took my Walter May the Lord protect his soul. Alone with 2 young kids to raise Out on the Western Plain My children harmonize with wolves And sing just like the rain But hauling hay and water Were the desperate daily facts And the years have carved their memories In the muscles of my back.
Yeah. Hallie Lonnigan will tell these truths to you: Hard times, the only times I ever knew Hard luck's the only horse I ever drew Hard work's the only way I made it thru.
Then I married for convenience sake A trader from in town A blacksmith name of 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 thru the mud. Well no-one was the wiser when old Charlie disappeared And me and them four 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.
Yeah. Hallie Lonnigan will tell these truths to you: Hard times, the only times I ever knew Hard luck's the only horse I ever drew Hard work's the only way I made it thru.
This land was conquered by brave men your history 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 history's in a working woman's soul.
Yeah. Hallie Lonnigan will tell these truths to you: Hard times, the only times I ever knew Hard luck's the only horse I ever drew Hard work's the only way I made it thru. Hard work's the only way I made it thru.