Uncle Dave Macon - We Are Up Against it Now lyrics

The world is turned upside down, it surely must be true The way that things are running now proves that to me and you We're up against it now There's no use to raise a row But of all the times I've ever seen We're sure up against it now Since the highway's come, they've taxed the farmer down The road's so slick his team can't travel and he has to walk to town Since the auto's come, mules and horses won't sell The farmer's land is mortgaged down and the country's gone to (strum) A farmer bought him a tractor, he raised quite an alarm He only broke one little piece and he had to sell his farm We're up against it now There's no use to raise a row But the safest rig I've ever seen Is a mule and a bull-tongue plough He once was happy as a lark, but now he's down and out The auto is the thing they say, that brought this all about The farmer who's the one we know, on whom we must depend Is up against it with the rest, with troubles to amend