Po' Folks Lyrics - Connie Smith

PO' FOLKS 

(Bill Anderson) 

'61 Champion Music 

There's a whole lotta people lookin' down their noses at me 

Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family 

There was ten of us livin' in a two room shack 

On the banks of the river by the railroad track 

We kept chickens in a pen in the back 

And everybody said we was po' folks 

My daddy was a farmer but all he ever raised was us 

Dug a forty foot well struck thirty-six gallons of dust 

Salvation Army give us clothes to wear 

A man from the county came to cut our hair 

We lived next door to a millionare 

But we wadn't nothin' but po' folks 

We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks world 

We sure was a hungry bunch 

If the wolf had ever come to our front door 

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 you're po' folks 

We was po' folks livin' in a rich folks world 

We sure was a hungry bunch 

If the wolf had ever come to our front door 

He'd've had to brought a picnic lunch 

But we had something in our house money can't buy 

Kept us warm in the winter cool when the sun was high 

For whenever we didn't have food enough 

And the howlin' winds would get pretty rough 

We patched the cracks and set the table with love 

Cause that's what you do when you're po' folks 

And we wadn't nothin' but po' folks 

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