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There's a whole lotta people lookin' down their noses at me |
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Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family |
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There was ten of us livin' in a two room shack |
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On the banks of the river by the railroad track |
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We kept chickens in a pen in the back and everybody said we was po' folks |
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My daddy was a farmer but all he ever raised was us |
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Dug a forty foot well struck thirty-six gallons of dust |
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Salvation |
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Army give us clothes to wear a man from the county came to cut our hair |
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We lived next door to a millionare but we wadn't nothin' but po' folks |
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We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks world we sure was a hungry bunch |
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If the wolf had ever come to our front door he'd've had to brought a picnic lunch |
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My grandaddy's pension was a dollar and thirty-three cents |
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That was ten dollar less than the landlord wanted for rent |
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The landlord's letters got nasty indeed he wrote get out but pa couldn't read |
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And we was too broke to even pay heed but that's how it is when you're po' folks [ harmonica ] |
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We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks world we sure was a hungry bunch |
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If the wolf had ever come to our front door he'd've had to brought a picnic lunch |
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But we had something in our house money can't buy |
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Kept us warm in the winter cool when the sun was high |
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For whenever we didn't have food enough and the howlin' winds would get pretty rough |
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We patched the cracks and set the table with love |
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Cause that's what you do when you're po' folks and we wadn't nothin' but po' folks |
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My mom and my dad was po' folks my brother and my sister was po' folks |
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My dog and my cat was po' folks and even the po' folks was po' folks |
