There Never Was a Time - Bobby Bare, Skeeter Davis, Bobby Bare and Skeeter Davis

There was a time

We’d sit in the backyard 'cause the house would get so hot

From the summer sun

There was no way of sleeping

And you’d play your old guitar

We’d fight mosquitos and enjoy

You backyard concerts for we had no television

We’d just begun our life

As man and wife and hardships then

Could scarcely scare us into quitting

Things were far from being fine

We often dined upon a dime

But there never was a time we didn’t love

And that Christmas brought our saddest days

When your pride gave way when you told the kids

There’d be no gifts cause we were broke

Though their little tears of grief were so hard to see

It didn’t hurt me

Like the lump I knew was in your throat

It was then with arms entwined

We both broke down and cried

For it seemed like nothing good would ever come

The doctor bills we couldn’t pay

They came and took our car away

But there never was a time we didn’t love

Now there’s an easy chair for my back

A satin pillow for my head

And the kids are wild about the brand new car

You and I can order steak with all the trimmings and not worry

If we’ve spent a dollar more than we can spare

No wonder in our prayers

We’ve thanked the man upstairs who led us through

The years of raising kids and paying bills

And I think he guided us

Not because we were smart but just because

There never was a time we didn’t love

No there never was a time never was a time

There never was a time we didn’t love