Po' Folks

(verse 1)
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There's a whole lot of people 
          D7                 G
lookin' down their noses at me,
                            D7     
Cause I didn't come from a wealthy 
   G
family,
            C                     
There were ten of us livin' in a two
G
 room shack,
        D7                      
On the banks of the river by the 
  G
railroad tracks,
    C                  G
We kept chickens in a pen in the 
back,
                           D7
And ever'body said we were Po' 
Folks,


(verse 2)
    G                      D7     
My daddy was a farmer, but all he 
                G
ever raised was us,
He dug a forty-foot well, struck 
 D7                     G
thrirty six gallons of dust,
     C                      G
The Salvation Army gave us clothes 
to wear,
   D7                         G
A man from the County came to cut 
our hair,
    C                    G
We lived next door to a millionaire,
    D7                    G
But we wasn't nothin' but Po' Folks,


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(chorus)
       C                      G
We was Po' Folks livin' in a rich 
folks world,
    D7                G
We sure was a hungry bunch,
        C                     G
If the wolf had ever come to our 
front door,
A7                       D7
He'd a had to brought a picnic 
lunch,


(verse 3)
My granddaddy's pension was a dollar
 and thirty-three cents,
That was ten dollars 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 were too broke, to even pay 
heed,
But that's how it is, when you're 
Po' Folks,


(chorus)
       C                      G
We was Po' Folks livin' in a rich 
folks world,
    D7                G
We sure was a hungry bunch,
        C                     G
If the wolf had ever come to our 
front door,
A7                       D7
He'd a had to brought a picnic 
lunch,


(verse 4)
    G                       D7
But we had somethin' in our house, 
money can't buy,
                             D7 
Kept us warm in the winter, cool 
                  G
when the sun was high,
     C                          
For whenever we didn't have food 
  G
enough,
         D7                   G
And the howlin' winds, would get 
pretty rough,
    C                             
We patched the cracks and set the 
G
table with Love,
       D7                     
Cause that's what you do, when 
        G
you're Po' Folks,


(ending)
    D7                    G
And we wasn't nothin' but Po' Folks,
    D7                G
My mom and my dad was Po' Folks,
    D7                       G
My brother and my sister was Po' 
folks,
    D7                G
My dog and my cat was Po' folks,
     D7                    G
And even the Po' Folks was Po' 
folks,