Sarah moved down to Harlan county

Found no work and found no bounty

Took her share to feed her kin

And kept em clear of medicine

What rotten shape they keep us in

When mama couldn't live alone

Sarah brought her family home

With Emma’s baby due in June

Four generations, two bedrooms

And not one goddamn thing to do

Can't this world get its use outta me

I'm just like a daisy underneath a canopy

With sunlight always out of reach

The years had slowed the foundry down

So Sarah tended bar in town

It was such a fight to pry the doors

Gettin’ women workin’ on the floors

No they don't make nothin’ anymore

Can't this world get its use outta me

I'm just like a daisy underneath a canopy

With sunlight always out of reach

There's not a dream left in my head

Except to give more than I take

But these walls are painted lead

And my spirit's shak(en/in)

Mama passed in '93

Tommy got his GED

Emma left and married young

A man content to raise her son

But Sarah had nowhere to run

So with nothing left to make her stay

Sarah thought she’d move away

But as she combed through locks of greying hair

The mirror seemed to catch her stare

No there's no sense going anywhere

Can't this world get its use outta me

I'm just like a daisy underneath a canopy

With sunlight always out of reach

She wondered

Can't this world get its use outta me

I'm just a like baby left to swing under a tree

The sunlight never gets to me