title: It's a Mean Old World to Try to Live In
text: # It's a Mean Old World to Try to Live In
  
  It's a Mean Old World to Try to Live In is a 1975 gospel blues LP by American street-performing musician Reverend Pearly Brown (1915–86, vocals, guitar and harmonica, active in Macon, Georgia) on the Rounder label.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  ### Side 1
  
  * "How Long Has It Been Since You've Been Home"
  * "The Day Is Past and Gone"
  * "It's a Mean Old World to Try to Live In"
  * "What a Time"
  * "Pure Religion"
  * "Help Me to Understand"
  
  ### Side 2
  
  * "How About You"
  * "Nothin' but Joy"
  * "Another Child of God Gone Home"
  * "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burnin'"
  * "Please Mommy Stay Home with Me"
  * "Peace Will Prevail"
  * "Goodbye"
  
  ### Bonus tracks on CD re-release Rounder 82161-0221-2
  
  These are placed between "Peace Will Prevail" and "Goodbye" in the original release order.
  
  * "Steal Away"
  * "You Got to Move"
  * "I Know the Lord Will Make a Way"
  * "Sometimes I Feel Like My Time Ain't Long"
  * "Motherless Children"
  * "When I Take My Vacation"
  