Key: F major•
Intro 1
F
C
F
C
Verse 1
lot of people
C
F
looking down their noses at me
Cause I didn't come from
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F
a wealthy family
C
F
but all he ever raised was us
He dug a forty foot well,
C
F
struck thirty -six gallons of dust
Bb
F
The Salvation Army gave us clothes to wear,
C
F
a man from the county came to cut our hair
Bb
F
We lived next door to a billionaire,
C
F
we sure was a hungry bunch
G
C
he'd have to draw a picnic lunch
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C
My granddaddy's pension was a dollar
That was ten dollars less
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F
than the landlord wanted for rent
Bb
F
Oh, the landlord's letters got nasty indeed
C
F
He wrote, get out, the call couldn't read
Bb
F
And we was too broke to even pay heed
F
Bb
And if the wolf would ever come
G
C
He'd have had to draw a picnic lunch
Am
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C
We had somethin' that our
Kept us warm in the winter
F
C
F
set the table with love
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F
And we wasn't that the poor, poor folks
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My mama and my papa was the poor folks
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F
A sister and a brother was more folk
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A dog and a cat was more folk
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF C Bb G Am
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