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These Are Difficult Times / Remember The Good Times

This version of These Are Difficult Times / Remember The Good Times was released by Willie Nelson in 1971.

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These are difficult times
These are difficult times
Lord, please give me a sign
For these are difficult times

Remember the good times
They’re smaller in number, and easier to recall
Don’t spend too much time on the bad times
Their staggering number will be heavy as lead on your mind

Don’t waste a moment unhappy
Invaluable moments, gone with the leakage of time
As we leave on our own separate journeys
Moving west with the sun to a place buried deep within our minds

And remember the good times
They’re smaller in number, and easier to recall
Don’t spend too much time on the bad times
Their staggering number will be heavy as lead on your mind

Remember the good times
They’re smaller in number, and easier to recall
Don’t spend too much time on the bad times
Their staggering number will be heavy as lead on your mind…

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