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 sleepin'   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 quittin'   Things were far from bein' 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 raisin' kids and payin' 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 timethere never was a time we didn't love