Hallie Lonnigan

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.