Key: D major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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lookin' down their noses at me
'Cause I didn't come from
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a wealthy family
Verse 2
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We kept chickens in a pen in the back and
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all he ever raised was us
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Salvation Army give us clothes to wear a man
Verse 3
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We lived next door to a millionare but we
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We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks
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world we sure was a hungry bunch
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If the wolf had ever come to our front door
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he'd've had to brought a picnic lunch
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Verse 4
That was ten dollar less than the
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landlord wanted for rent
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The landlord's letters got nasty indeed he
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wrote get out but pa couldn't read
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And we was too broke to even pay heed but that's
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks
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world we sure was a hungry bunch
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If the wolf had ever come to our front door
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he'd've had to brought a picnic lunch
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But we had something in our
Verse 6
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For whenever we didn't have food enough and
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the howlin' winds would get pretty rough
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'Cause that's what you do when you're po' folks
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and we wadn't nothin' but po' folks
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My mom and my dad was po' folks my
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brother and my sister was po' folks
Verse 7
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD C G A
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