Po’ Folks-Bill Anderson

[ti:Po' Folks] [ar:Bill Anderson/Earl Scruggs] [al:Yodelin' Yippee I O, Vol. 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Po' Folks - Bill Anderson (比尔·安德森)/Earl Scruggs [00:03.41]Written by：Bill Anderson [00:06.83]There's a whole lotta people [00:08.29]Lookin' down their noses at me [00:10.72] [00:13.11]'Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family [00:17.06] [00:19.50]There was ten of us livin' in a two room shack [00:22.73]On the banks of the river [00:24.52]By the railroad track [00:26.34]We kept chickens in a pen in the back [00:29.56]And everybody said we was po' folks [00:32.21] [00:33.99]My daddy was a farmer [00:35.61]But all he ever raised was us [00:38.18] [00:40.40]Dug a forty foot well [00:42.00]Struck thirty six gallons of dust [00:44.79] [00:47.02]The Salvation Army give us clothes to wear [00:49.66] [00:50.28]A man from the County came to cut our hair [00:52.84] [00:53.43]We lived next door to a millionaire [00:56.66]But we wasn't nothin' cept po'folks [00:59.26] [01:01.10]We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks' world [01:04.17] [01:04.67]We sure was a hungry bunch [01:06.64] [01:07.38]If the wolf had ever come to our front door [01:10.48] [01:11.02]He'd have had brought a picnic lunch [01:13.77] [01:14.30]My granddaddy's pension was a dollar [01:16.63]And thirty three cents [01:17.95] [01:20.26]That was ten dollar less than [01:22.10]The landlord wanted for rent [01:24.47] [01:26.89]The landlord's letters got nasty indeed [01:29.78] [01:30.30]He wrote Get out but Pa couldn't read [01:33.43]And we was too broke to even pay heed [01:36.12] [01:36.65]But that's how it is when you're po' folks [01:39.46] [01:47.53]We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks' world [01:50.99]We sure was a hungry bunch [01:52.95] [01:53.83]If the wolf had ever come to our front door [01:56.88] [01:57.46]He'd have had brought a picnic lunch [02:00.13] [02:00.74]But we had something in our house money can't buy [02:04.37] [02:06.63]Kept us warm in the winter [02:08.45]Cool when the sun was high [02:11.33] [02:13.11]For whenever we didn't have food enough [02:16.52]And the howlin' winds would get pretty rough [02:19.43] [02:19.94]We patched the cracks and set the table with love [02:25.36]'Cause that's what you do [02:26.90]When you're po' folks [02:28.93]And we wasn't nothin' but po' folks [02:31.15] [02:32.11]My mom and my dad was po' folks [02:35.24]My brother and my sister was po' folks [02:37.42] [02:38.14]My dog and my cat was po' fol