Bill Anderson - Po Folks Chords

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There's a whole lot of people looking down their noses at me

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Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family

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There were ten of us living in a two room shack

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On the banks of the river by the railroad tracks

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We kept chickens in a pen in the back

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And everybody said we were Po' Folks

 
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My daddy was a farmer but all he ever raised was us

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He dug a forty-foot well 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 millionaire

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But we wasn't nothing but Po' Folks

 
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We was Po' Folks living in a rich folks world

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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 a had to brought a picnic lunch

 
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My granddaddy's pension was a dollar and thirty-three cents

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That was ten dollars less than the landlord wanted for rent

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The landlord's letters got nasty indeed

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He wrote  get out  but Pa couldn't read

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And we were too broke to even pay heed

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But that's how it is when you're Po' Folks

 
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We was Po' Folks living in a rich folks world

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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 a 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

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And the howling 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

 
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And we wasn't nothing but Po' Folks

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My mom and my dad was Po' Folks

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My brother and my sister was Po' Folks 

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My dog and my cat was Po' Folks

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And even the Po' Folks was Po' Folks