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Po' Folks
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writtena and recorded by Bill Anderson
G D7 G
There's a whole lot of people looking down their noses at me
D7 G
Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family
C G
There were ten of us living in a two room shack
D7 G
On the banks of the river by the railroad tracks
C G
We kept chickens in a pen in the back
D7
And everybody said we were Po' Folks
G D7 G
My daddy was a farmer but all he ever raised was us
D7 G
He dug a forty-foot well struck thirty six gallons of dust
C G
The Salvation Army gave us clothes to wear
D7 G
A man from the county came to cut our hair
C G
We lived next door to a millionaire
D7 G
But we wasn't nothing but Po' Folks
C G
We was Po' Folks living in a rich folks world
D7 G
We sure was a hungry bunch
C G
If the wolf had ever come to our front door
A7 D7
He'd a had to brought a picnic lunch
G D7 G
My granddaddy's pension was a dollar and thirty-three cents
D7 G
That was ten dollars less than the landlord wanted for rent
C G
The landlord's letters got nasty indeed
D7 G
He wrote get out but Pa couldn't read
C G
And we were too broke to even pay heed
D7 G
But that's how it is when you're Po' Folks
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G D7 G
But we had something in our house money can't buy
D7 G
Kept us warm in the winter cool when the sun was high
C G
For whenever we didn't have food enough
D7 G
And the howling winds would get pretty rough
C G
We patched the cracks and set the table with love
D7 G
Cause that's what you do when you're Po' Folks
D7 G
And we wasn't nothing but Po' Folks
D7 G
My mom and my dad was Po' Folks
D7 G
My brother and my sister was Po' Folks
D7 G
My dog and my cat was Po' Folks
D7 G
And even the Po' Folks was Po' Folks
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