Poor Man's House Lyrics - Singles - Patty Griffin

"You know you've done enough when every bone is sore 

You know you've prayed enough when you don't ask anymore 

You know you're coming to some kind of understanding 

When every dream you've dreamed has passed and you're still standing 

Mama says God tends to every little skinny sheep 

So count your ribs and say your prayers and get to sleep 

Nothing is louder to god's ears than a poor man's sorrow 

Daddy is poor today, and he will be poor tomorrow 

Hey, that's the poor man's house 

Everybody get a look at the poor man's house 

Everywhere they went before must have turned them out 

And now they're living in a poor man's house 

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There's nothing like poverty to get you into heaven 

They got a lot of wine and fish up there and the bread's unleavened 

They got a lot of ears that heard a whip go crack 

Lots of missing toes and fingers and scars upon their backs 

Daddy's been working too much for days and days and doesn't eat 

He never says much but I think this time it's got him beat 

It isn't that he isn't strong or kind or clever 

Your daddy's poor today, and he will be poor forever 

Hey, that's the poor man's house 

Those kids are living in a poor man's house 

They walk to school with the soles of their shoes worn out 

And come home in the evening to the poor man's house 

What are you chopping that wood for 

Why are you growing that corn 

Mama's sewing a brand new shirt 

And you're wearing the one that's torn 

I guess it's for some one else's kid who wasn't born 

In a poor man's house 

Hey, take a look at that house 

Everybody, we're living in a poor man's house 

Seems like everywhere we go they find us out 

Find out that we've been living in a poor man's house"