will we get cold and hungry will times be very bad when we are needing bread and meat where are we going to get it dad we ll get it from the man in the house on the hill yes we will from the man on the hill ploughing time is over still the fields are bare how we going to make a living with twenty acres to share i ll beg for more land from the man on the hill yes i will i ll ask the man on the hill i haven t got no sunday shoes that i can wear to town papa reckon the boss has got a pair of hand me downs i ll go and ask the man in the house on the hill yes i will i ll ask the man on the hill maybe he will help us maybe we ll get by but who s going to pay the dying bills if we all should die we ll leave it to the man in the sky when we die yes we ll leave it to the man in the sky