Hard Trials

Hard Trials
Been listening all the night long,
been listening all the day
Been listening all the night long,
for to hear some sinner pray.

Now ain't them hard trials,
great tribulation,
ain't them hard trials,
I'm bound to leave this land.
Oh the foxes, they have holes in the ground
and the birds have nests in the air
and everything has a hiding place,
but us poor sinners ain't got nowhere.
Now ain't them hard trials,
great tribulation,
ain't them hard trials,
I'm bound to leave this land.
o, methodist, methodist is my name,
methodist till i die,
i've been received in the methodist church,
But i'll die on the episcopal side.
Now ain't them hard trials,
great tribulation,
ain't them hard trials,
I'm bound to leave this land.
you may go this way, you may go that way,
you may go from door to door,
But if you ain't got the good Lord in your soul
Why the devil's gonna get you sure.

Now ain't them hard trials,
great tribulation,
ain't them hard trials,
I'm bound to leave this land.