You know hard times is just an old friend, just an old friend to me
I say hard times is just an old friend, just an old friend to me
Tell me now, old friend, oh when you gonna let me be?
Can't you feel a cold wind howlin' down, blowin' my song?
Can't you feel a cold wind howlin' down, blowin' my song?
Well, I ain't an old man, but you know my time ain't long
Mean old woman, people won't you tell me where can she be?
Mean old woman, people won't you tell me where can she be?
She's the only woman that ever meant a damn to me
You know hard times is just an old friend, just an old friend to me
I say hard times is just an old friend, just an old friend to me
Tell me now, old friend, when you gonna let me be?
Tell me now, old friend, when you gonna let me be?
Tell me now, old friend, when you gonna let this poor man be?