Tonalidad: C major
Verse 1
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There's a whole lotta people
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C
F
C
lookin' down their noses at me
'Cause I didn't come from
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B
C
a wealthy family
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C
F
There was ten of us livin'
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in a two room shack
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On the banks of the river
C
by the railroad track
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C
We kept chickens in a pen in the back
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And everybody said we was po' folks
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My daddy was a farmer but all
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B
he ever raised was us
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Dug a forty foot well struck thirty-
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C
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six gallons of dust
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Salvation Army give us clothes to wear
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B
C
A man from the county came to cut our hair
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C
We lived next door to a millionaire
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B
C
But we wadn't nothin' but po'folks
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We was po' folks livin'
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B
in a rich folks world
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B
C
We sure was a hungry bunch
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B
If the wolf had ever come to our
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B
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front door
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He'd've had to brought a picnic lunch
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My grandaddy's pension was a
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B
dollar and thirty- three cents
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F
C
B
That was ten dollar less than
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B
C
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the landlord wanted for rent
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C
The landlord's letters got nasty indeed
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G
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He wrote get out but pa couldn't read
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C
B
And we was too broke to even pay heed
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But that's how it is when
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you're po' folks
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B
C
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C
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B
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B
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C
We was
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po' folks livin' in a rich folks world
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G
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C
We sure was a hungry bunch
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E
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C
If the wolf had ever come to our front door
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D
He'd've had to brought
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a picnic lunch
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C
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But we had something in our
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C
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house money can't buy
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Kept us warm in the winter cool
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C
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when the sun was high
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For whenever we didn't
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have food enough
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And the howlin' winds
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would get pretty rough
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We patched the cracks and set
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C
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Am
the table with love
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Cause that's what you do
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when you're po'folks
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B
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And we weren't
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nothin' but po'folks
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C
My mom and my dad was po'folks
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My brother and my sister was po' folks
My dog and my cat was po' folks
And even the po' folks was po' folks
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