It Sure Was Better Back Then
Steve Forbert

Working on the Georgia Line the live long day
Ninety nine degrees and only half past May
Nailing down the metal with the cross time blues
I had creosote all over my shoes
I hated it, you know, now I find I miss it
Every time my little pension check rolls in
Course I had it bad, not as bad as this is
It sure was better back then
Yeah It sure was better back then

Working in the rain beneath surplus tarp
Foreman in the wagon twanging a sad Jews harp
Passing out at night still in my mud caked jeans
I was living off of berries and beans
I hated it, you know, now I swear I miss it
Every time I look down on my pale white skin
Course I had it bad, not as bad as this is
It sure was better back then
It sure was better back then

Well, the cable caught my leg, and, boy, the damn thing bled
Foreman sewed the muscle up with tarp patch thread
Sit me by the camp, gonna have the cook clean pans
And scrub them down with Georgia red sand...
I hated it, you know, now I really I miss it
Staring in my TV till the broadcast ends
Course I had it bad, not as bad as this is
It sure was better back then
It sure was better back then
It sure was better back, one more time,
It sure was better back then

Let's go on off with 'em ?
Some kind of beat happenin' (audience clapping)
That's gonna do, that's good ?

Well, the cable caught my leg, and, boy, the damn thing bled
Foreman sewed the muscle up with tarp patch thread
Sit me by the camp, gonna have the cook clean pans
And scrub them down with Georgia red sand,
I hated it, you know, now I really I miss it
Starin' in the T-V till the broadcast ends
Course I had it bad, not as bad as this is
It sure was better back then
It sure was better back then
It sure was better back, one more time,
It sure was better back then


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  "Grand Central Station, March 18, 1977"   "January 23-30, 1978"   A Big Comeuppance   All I Asked Of You   All I Need To Do   Baby   Baby, Don't   Baby, I Know   Big City Cat   Big New World   Born Too Late   Breaking Through   Building Me A Fire   Can't We Get Together?   Dear Lord   Devil (Here She Comes Now)   Devil (Here She Comes Now) (Americana Version)   Don't Look Down, Pollyanna   Don't Stop   Dream, Dream   Evergreen Boy   Gambling Barroom Blues   Get That Vagabond Feeling   Goin' down to Laurel   Good Planets Are Hard to Find   Grand Central Station, March 18, 1977   Hang On Again Till The Sun Shines   Hope, Faith and Love   House of Cards   I Blinked Once   I Don't Know   I Don’t Know If You Know It   I Know What I Know   I Will Be There (When Your Train Comes in the Stat...   I Will Sing Your Praise   I'm in Love   I'm In Love With You   If I Want You Now   In Love With You   In the Jailhouse Now #1   It Doesn't Matter Much   It Isn't Gonna Be That Way   It's Been a Long Time   January 23-30, 1978   Lay Down Your Weary Tune Again   Leaving Blues   Listen to the Mockingbird   Lonesome Cowboy Bill's Song   Make It All so Real   Man, I Miss That Girl   Metal Marie   Mexico   Middle Age   My Blue Eyed Jane   My Carolina Sunshine Girl   My Seaside Brown-Eyed Girl   New Working Day   No Use Running from the Blues   Now You Come Back   Oh, Camille   On the Streets of This Town   One Short Year Gone By   Open House   Over With You   Planet Earth Song   Poor Boy   Responsibility   Rollin’ Home To Someone You Love   Romeo's Tune   Sadly Sorta Like a Soap Opera   Samson and Delilah's Beauty Shop   Say Goodbye to Little Jo   Schoolgirl   Search Your Heart   Send In The Clowns   Settle Down   Shaky Ground   She's Living In a Dream World   Simply Must Move On   Simply Spalding Gray   Sing It Again, My Friend   Smoky Windows   Some Will Rake the Coals   Something Special   Song for Katrina   Song for the South   Steve Forbert's Midsummer Night's Toast   Steve Forbert's Moon River   Stolen Identity   Strange   Strange Names   Sugarcane Plum Fairy   Suspicion   Sweet Love That You Give (Sure Goes a Long, Long W...   That'll Be Alright   The American in Me   The Baghdad Dream   The Coo Coo Bird   The Oil Song   The Sweet Love That You Give   The Sweet Love That You Give (Sure Goes a Long, Lo...   The Sweet Love That You Give Me (Sure Goes a Long,...   The Weekend   Thinkin'   Thirty More Years   Thirty Thousand Men   This Land Is Your Land   Time Seemed So Free   Tonight I Feel So Far Away from Home   Wait   Welcome The Rolling Stones   What Kinda Guy?   Whatever, Man (Americana Version)   When I Get To California   When I Get To California (Americana Version)   When the Sun Shines   When You Walk in the Room   Who'll Watch The Sun Set?   Why Should I Be Lonely   Witch Blues   Witch Blues [Alternate Take]   Write Me A Raincheck   Ya Ya (Next to Me)   You Cannot Win 'Em All   You Cannot Win If You Do Not Play   You Cannot Win If You Do Not Play [Live][#]   You're Meant For Me   You’d See The Things That I See

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