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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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There's a whole
lot of people
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looking 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 living
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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
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And we kept chickens and
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a pen in the back,
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and everybody said we was fo' folks
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My daddy was a farmer,
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but all he ever raised was us
He dug a forty foot well,
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struck thirty -six gallons of dust
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The Salvation Army gave us clothes to wear,
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a man from the county came to cut our hair
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We lived next door to a billionaire,
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but that's how it is when
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you're poor folks
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We was poor folks livin'
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in a rich folks' world,
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we sure was a hungry bunch
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And if the wolf ever come
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to our front door,
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he'd have to draw a picnic lunch
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My granddaddy's pension was a dollar
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and thirty -three cents
That was ten dollars less
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than the landlord wanted for rent
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Oh, the landlord's letters got nasty indeed
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He wrote, get out, the call couldn't read
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And we was too broke to even pay heed
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And that's how it is
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when you're poor folks
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That's how it is when
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you're poor folks
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We was poor folks livin'
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in a rich folks world
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We sure was a hungry bunch
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And if the wolf would ever come
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to knock on the door
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He'd have had to draw a picnic lunch
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We had somethin' that our
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house money can't buy
Kept us warm in the winter
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and cool when the sun's high
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Weep, weep, weep, weep
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For whenever we didn't
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howl good enough
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And the howlin' winds
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would get pretty rough
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We'd patch the crack and
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set the table with love
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Cause that's how it is
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when you're poor folks
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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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A sister and a brother was more folk
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A dog and a cat was more folk
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And that's how it is
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when you're more folk
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