Key: Bb 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
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We kept chickens in a pen in the back
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My daddy was a farmer but all
Dug a forty foot well struck
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thirty six gallons of dust
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A man from the county came to cut our hair
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We lived next door to a millionare but we
Verse 2
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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 had to brought a picnic lunch
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dollar and thirty three cents
That was ten dollars less than
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the 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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We were too broke to even pay heed but
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that's how it is when you're po' folks
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We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks world we sure was a hungry
Interlude 1
bunch...
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Verse 3
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But we had somethin' in our
Kept us warm in the winter cool
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when the sun was high
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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 daddy was po' folks my
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brother and my sister was po' folks
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