Artisto: | Bill Anderson (English) |
Uzanto: | llmusic11 |
Daŭro: | 130 sekundoj |
Komenca paŭzo: | 12 sekundoj |
Tononoma sistemo: | Ne definita |
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Komentoj pri tabulaturo: | - |
Po' Folks
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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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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 _____________ was Po' Folks