
Date of issue: 31.12.1997
Record label: A Geffen Records Release;
Song language: English
Poverty Hill |
They come in their summery dresses and jackets so fine, the rich folks who |
measure success with a big dollar sign |
They gaze with delight with the rocks and the scraggly pines. |
The come in the |
Spring and they stay 'til the Fall |
On Paradise Mountain away from it all |
Stubble and stone make a hard row to how. |
What little will grow, |
the drought will kill |
The summer folks call it Paradise Mountain but we call it Poverty Hill |
They say we have beautiful faces as grainy as wood. |
Yeah, they’d like to live |
here of all places if only they could |
Well, we don’t get those wood, grainy faces from livin' too good. |
It’s the rocks and the sun and dust and the heat |
It’s too much of work and too little to eat |
Stubble and stone make a hard row to how. |
What little will grow, |
the drought will kill |
The summer folks call it Paradise Mountain but we call it Poverty Hill |
They pack and say what a pity that they have to go. |
They say that Old Smokey’s |
so pretty all covered with snow |
But how we get through the winter they never will know. |
No lard for the pantry. |
No grist for the meal |
And winter’s are cold over Poverty Hill |
Stubble and stone make a hard row to how. |
What little will grow, |
the drought will kill |
The summer folks call it Paradise Mountain but we call it Poverty Hill |
Yes, we call it Poverty Hill |
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