po folks chords by
Bill Anderson

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Key: D major•

Intro 1

D

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C

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G

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D

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G

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Verse 1
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There's a whole lotta people
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lookin' down their noses at me
'Cause I didn't come from
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a wealthy family
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There was ten of us livin'
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in a two room shack
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On the banks of the river
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by the railroad track

Verse 2
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We kept chickens in a pen in the back and
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everybody said we was po' folks
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My daddy was a farmer but
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all he ever raised was us
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Dug a forty foot well struck thirty-six
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gallons gallons of dust
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D D 
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Salvation Army give us clothes to wear a man
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from the county came to cut our hair

Verse 3
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D D 
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We lived next door to a millionare but we
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wadn't nothin' but po' folks
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We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks
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G G 
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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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My grandaddy's pension was a
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dollar and thirty-three cents
cents
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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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G G 
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wrote get out but pa couldn't read
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D D 
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And we was too broke to even pay heed but that's
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how it is when you're po' folks

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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D D 
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he'd've had to brought a picnic lunch
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D D 
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But we had something in our
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house money can't buy
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Kept us warm in the winter cool
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when the sun was high

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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We patched the cracks and set
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the table with love
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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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G G 
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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

D

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My dog and my cat was po' folks and

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even the po' folks was po' folks

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