Po' Man chords by Milton Wright

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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You
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wish you were a home man
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You wish that you could
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die like me
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Cause when I die, I  know I'll be free,
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I know I'll be free, I'm a  poor man
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You wish you'd eaten pig tails
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An d had to live on a col
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lard green
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I  know sometime that there'll be times
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You wish you'd never
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seen a mule
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You wish you were a pony
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You wish that you could laugh,
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when you will be crying
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You wish that you could live,
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when you will be dyin'
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You wish that you could die like me,
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when I die I'll be free
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I'm a  poor man
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Poor man, poor man
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Ooo,
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You want to hear about gold
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Hey, a king built his prison room
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Just as full as the room could hold
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To the top of his reach on the wall
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With every known shape of the stuff
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Twisted by himself off his doom
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But it wasn't ransom enough
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It wasn't enough
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It wasn't enough
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His captors accepted it all
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But they didn't let go of the king
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They made him send out a call
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To his subjects to gather them more
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And his subjects  brought
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all they could bring
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Out of ghetto, suburb, and shore
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But it wasn't enough,
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it wasn't enough
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Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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yeah, yeah, yeah
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Wubba
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Wubba
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And when there was no more to bring,
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his captors convicted the king
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Of once having started a war,
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and strangled the wretch with a string
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Cause it wasn't enough
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Oh, he suffered salvation and died
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Of being brought down through the rail
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Now he knows what it means to want
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Now he knows just how it
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feels to not have enough
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It wasn't enough
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Wuh buh!
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!
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You wish you were a poor man
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D 'you wish that you could
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die like me?
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Cause when I die I know I'll be free
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I know I'll be free, I'm a  -callin'
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