Po' Folks-Bill Anderson/Rose Madox

[ti:Po' Folks] [ar:Bill Anderson/Rose Madox] [al:Miles & Miles of Country] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Po' Folks - Bill Anderson (比尔·安德森)/Rose Madox [00:07.27]There's a whole lotta people [00:08.89]Lookin' down their noses at me [00:11.34] [00:13.71]'Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family [00:17.54] [00:19.89]There was ten of us livin' in a two room shack [00:23.32]On the banks of the river [00:24.87]By the railroad track [00:26.73]We kept chickens in a pen in the back [00:29.92]And everybody said we was po' folks [00:32.84] [00:34.40]My daddy was a farmer [00:36.30]But all he ever raised was us [00:39.49] [00:40.86]Dug a forty foot well [00:42.40]Struck thirty six gallons of dust [00:45.19] [00:47.67]The salvation army give us clothes to wear [00:50.99]A man from the county came to cut our hair [00:53.91]We lived next door to a millionaire [00:56.80] [00:57.36]But we wasn't nothin' cept po'folks [00:59.79] [01:01.74]We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks' world [01:05.27]We sure was a hungry bunch [01:07.56] [01:08.11]If the wolf had ever come to our front door [01:11.85]He'd have had brought a picnic lunch [01:14.47] [01:15.18]My granddaddy's pension was a dollar [01:17.38]And thirty three cents [01:18.71] [01:21.07]That was ten dollar less than [01:22.97]The landlord wanted for rent [01:25.48] [01:27.76]The landlord's letters got nasty indeed [01:30.49] [01:31.06]He wrote 'get out' but pa couldn't read [01:34.04]And we was too broke to even pay heed [01:37.38]But that's how it is when you're po' folks [01:40.22] [01:48.46]We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks' world [01:51.82]We sure was a hungry bunch [01:54.16] [01:54.81]If the wolf had ever come to our front door [01:58.34]He'd have had brought a picnic lunch [02:01.06] [02:01.86]But we had something in our house money can't buy [02:05.63] [02:07.82]Kept us warm in the winter [02:10.12]Cool when the sun was high [02:13.43] [02:14.17]For whenever we didn't have food enough [02:17.58]And the howlin' winds would get pretty rough [02:20.95]We patched the cracks and set the table with love [02:26.76]'Cause that's what you do [02:28.29]When you're po' folks [02:30.10]And we wasn't nothin' but po' folks [02:32.61] [02:33.29]My mom and my dad was po' folks [02:35.77] [02:36.33]My brother and my sister was po' folks [02:39.04] [02:39.68]My dog and my cat was po' folks