There's a whole lotta people
lookin' down their noses at me
'Cause I didn't come from
There was ten of us livin'
On the banks of the river
We kept chickens in a pen in the back
And everybody said we was po' folks
My daddy was a farmer but all
Dug a forty foot well struck thirty-
Salvation Army give us clothes to wear
A man from the county came to cut our hair
We lived next door to a millionaire
But we wadn't nothin' but po'folks
We sure was a hungry bunch
If the wolf had ever come to our
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
po' folks livin' in a rich folks world
We sure was a hungry bunch
If the wolf had ever come to our front door
But we had something in our
Kept us warm in the winter cool
We patched the cracks and set
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
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