This week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme is #WhenTimesAreTough. This is the first song that came into my mind:
Clarence Carter: Patches (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30JzGZYI_Hw
The song had been written by General Johnson and Ron Dunbar, and it had been originally recorded by Johnson's group, the Chairmen of the Board. But it was Clarence Carter's superior version that became a major hit, peaking at #4 on the Billboard pop chart.
Another song about the desperate measures women -- and men -- take to make money when they have no alternative.
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves / Cher
Gypsys, tramps and thieves
We'd hear it from the people of the town
Gypsys, tramps and thieves
But every night all the men would come around
and lay their money down
The oldest profession -- a way that women (and men) have coped with poverty through the ages. I've got another song along these same lines too.
Fancy / Bobbie Gentry
I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my life
With my head hung down in shame
I mighta been born just plain "white trash"
But Fancy was my name
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