Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Po' Folks , by - Bill Anderson. Release date: 05.11.2019
Song language: English
Po' Folks |
| There’s a whole lotta people lookin' down their noses at me |
| Cause I didn’t come from a wealthy family |
| There was ten of us livin' in a two room shack |
| On the banks of the river by the railroad track |
| We kept chickens in a pen in the back |
| And everybody said we was po' folks |
| My daddy was a farmer but all he ever raised was us |
| Dug a forty foot well struck thirty-six gallons of dust |
| Salvation Army give us clothes to wear |
| A man from the county came to cut our hair |
| We lived next door to a millionare |
| But we wadn’t nothin' but po' folks |
| We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks world |
| We sure was a hungry bunch |
| If the wolf had ever come to our front door |
| He’d’ve had to brought a picnic lunch |
| My grandaddy’s pension was a dollar and thirty-three cents |
| That was ten dollar less than the landlord wanted for rent |
| The landlord’s letters got nasty indeed |
| He wrote get out but pa couldn’t read |
| And we was too broke to even pay heed |
| But that’s how it is when you’re po' folks |
| We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks world |
| We sure was a hungry bunch |
| If the wolf had ever come to our front door |
| He’d’ve had to brought a picnic lunch |
| But we had something in our house money can’t buy |
| Kept us warm in the winter cool when the sun was high |
| For whenever we didn’t have food enough |
| And the howlin' winds would get pretty rough |
| We patched the cracks and set the table with love |
| Cause that’s what you do when you’re po' folks |
| And we wadn’t nothin' but po' folks |
| My mom and my dad was po' folks |
| My brother and my sister was po' folks |
| My dog and my cat was po' folks |
| And even the po' folks was po' folks |