Po' Folks

[00:07.78] There's a whole lotta people lookin' down their noses at me
[00:13.17] 'Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family
[00:19.25] There was ten of us livin' in a two room shack
[00:22.79] On the banks of the river by the railroad track
[00:25.73] We kept chickens in a pen in the back
[00:29.17] And everybody said we was po' folks
[00:34.06] My daddy was a farmer but all he ever raised was us
[00:38.65] Dug a forty foot well, struck thirty six gallons of dust
[00:46.63] The Salvation Army give us clothes to wear
[00:50.15] A man from the county came to cut our hair
[00:53.24] We lived next door to a millionaire
[00:56.20] But we wasn't nothin' 'cept po' folks
[01:01.66] We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks' world
[01:04.38] We sure was a hungry bunch
[01:07.31] If the wolf had ever come to our front door
[01:10.78] He'd have had brought a picnic lunch
[01:14.56] My granddaddy's pension was a dollar and thirty three cents
[01:17.81] That was ten dollar less than the landlord wanted for rent
[01:26.73] The landlord's letters got nasty indeed
[01:30.41] He wrote 'Get out' but Pa couldn't read
[01:33.97] And we was too broke to even pay heed
[01:36.89] But that's how it is when you're po' folks
[01:48.89] We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks' world
[01:53.09] We sure was a hungry bunch
[01:54.62] If the wolf had ever come to our front door
[01:57.73] He'd have had brought a picnic lunch
[02:01.28] But we had something in our house money can't buy
[02:07.05] Kept us warm in the winter, cool when the sun was high
[02:13.74] For whenever we didn't have food enough
[02:16.90] And the howlin' winds would get pretty rough
[02:20.39] We patched the cracks and set the table with love
[02:26.82] 'Cause that's what you do when you're po' folks
[02:29.89] And we wasn't nothin' but po' folks
[02:32.55] My mom and my dad was po' folks
[02:35.43] My brother and my sister was po' folks
[02:38.61] My dog and my cat was po' folks
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