Sleepy John Estes Time Is Drawing Near Lyrics

Now it used to be the time : be getting two bucks a day
But now we getting fifty cents : *running down* proper
pay

Time : time is drawing near
Now can't you see : more and more every year

Now I remember back in time : before we got grown
Be damned : to let sundown catch a ??? on

Now my mother used to say : the sign will be We couldn't tell summer from winter : no more by the
birds and of the trees

Now it used to be the time : get a corn crop in March
But now we can't get one in June : and neither July

Now you'd go to the church : just to work for soul
But now we go : to buy one another's clothes