Po' Folks-Bill Anderson

[ti:Po' Folks] [ar:Bill Anderson] [al:Greatest Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Po' Folks - Bill Anderson (比尔·安德森) [00:07.13]There's a whole lotta people [00:08.88]Lookin' down their noses at me [00:10.94] [00:13.57]'Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family [00:16.44] [00:19.57]There was ten of us livin' in a two room shack [00:22.94]On the banks of the river [00:24.51]By the railroad track [00:25.69] [00:26.44]We kept chickens in a pen in the back [00:29.32]And everybody said we was po' folks [00:32.07] [00:34.07]My daddy was a farmer [00:35.69]But all he ever raised was us [00:38.01] [00:40.82]Dug a forty foot well [00:42.13]Struck thirty six gallons of dust [00:44.07] [00:44.63]The Salvation Army give us clothes to wear [00:50.07]A man from the county came to cut our hair [00:53.57]We lived next door to a millionaire [00:55.88] [00:56.45]But we wasn't nothin' cept po'folks [00:58.94] [01:01.13]We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks' world [01:04.88]We sure was a hungry bunch [01:06.76] [01:07.63]If the wolf had ever come to our front door [01:11.13]He'd have had brought a picnic lunch [01:13.57] [01:14.19]My granddaddy's pension was a dollar [01:16.32] [01:16.82]And thirty three cents [01:18.07] [01:20.26]That was ten dollar less than [01:22.32]The landlord wanted for rent [01:23.94]The landlord's letters got nasty indeed [01:29.51]He wrote 'Get out' but Pa couldn't read [01:33.26]And we was too broke to even pay heed [01:36.51]But that's how it is when you're po' folks [01:39.69] [01:48.88]We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks' world [01:52.45]We sure was a hungry bunch [01:54.76] [01:55.32]If the wolf had ever come to our front door [01:58.70]He'd have had brought a picnic lunch [02:01.45] [02:02.01]But we had something in our house money can't buy [02:06.07] [02:07.94]Kept us warm in the winter [02:10.20]Cool when the sun was high [02:12.19] [02:14.39]For whenever we didn't have food enough [02:17.63]And the howlin' winds would get pretty rough [02:20.69] [02:21.20]We patched the cracks and set the table with love [02:25.01] [02:25.94]'Cause that's what you do [02:28.45]When you're po' folks [02:30.13]And we wasn't nothin' but po' folks [02:32.19] [02:33.19]My mom and my dad was po' folks [02:35.76] [02:36.38]My brother and my sister was po' folks [02:38.70] [02:39.76]My dog and my cat was po' folks