Chords for Bill Anderson - Po Folks
Tempo:
71.25 bpm
Chords used:
E
B
A
C#
F#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Thank you.
[B] Thank you all very much.
And [E] again, thank you for coming out tonight.
You're a good looking bunch.
I heard Herb say that I was raised in the state of Georgia and I was.
We used to live up on the side of a hill.
And that's kind of what this reminds me of because I could look out my front door and I could see this beautiful valley full of flowers.
And that's what you look like, a beautiful valley full of flowers.
Of course, I see an old weed here and there.
We come from Nashville, Tennessee, at a little place called the Grand Ole Opry and a little television show called Country's Family Reunion that I hope some of you watch.
Back in July of this year, I celebrated my 55th anniversary as a part of the Grand Ole Opry family.
Lord, I'll never forget the first night I joined the Opry.
Fifty five years ago, I was four years old.
OK, I was five years old.
[B] I was a little boy.
And [E] this is the song I sang.
I was running around the country back in those days singing this song and it was being played on the radio and all those kinds of things.
And I would tell people back then, I said, this song is the story of my life.
I just never dreamed that 55 years later, it would still be the story of my life.
But it is.
It's called We Ain't Nothing But Potholes.
[A] [E]
[B] [E] There's a whole lot of [B] people looking down there and [E] Moses and me.
Cause I didn't [B] come from a wealthy [E] family.
[A] There was ten of us [E] living in a two room shack [B] on the banks of the [E] river by the railroad [A] track.
And we kept [E] chickens in a pen in the back.
And everybody [B] said we was potholes.
[E] My daddy was a [B] farmer, but all he ever [E] raised was us.
He dug a 40 foot [B] well and 36 [E] gallons of dust.
[A] The Salvation [E] Army got us close to [B] where?
The man in the county had to cut our [A] hair.
We lived next door [E] to a millionaire.
[B] But we wasn't [E] sent potholes.
[A] We was poor folks [E] living in a rich folks world.
[F#] We sure was a [E] hungry bunch.
[A] If the wolf had ever [C#m] come up from the door, [F#] he'd have had to broke a picnic [E] lunch.
My granddaddy's food [B] was a dollar and [E] 33 cents.
That was ten dollars less [B] than the landlord wanted for [E] rent.
[A] The landlord's [E] letters got nasty and dead.
[B] He wrote get out, [E] but Paul couldn't read.
[A] And we was too broke [E] to even pay he.
[C#] But that's how it is when you're poor.
[A] [E]
[B] [E] [A] We was poor folks living [E] in a rich folks world.
[B] We sure was a [E] hungry bunch.
If [A] the wolf had ever [E] come to our front door, [F#] he'd have had to broke [C#] a picnic lunch.
[E] But we had something [B] in our house [E] money can't buy.
It kept us warm [B] in the winter, cool when the sun [E] was high.
[A] Or whenever we didn't [E] have food enough [B] and Halloween's [E] get pretty rough.
[A] We'd hatch the cracks and we set the [E] table with love.
[B]
Cause that's what [E] you do in the [C#] poor folks.
And he wasn't [E] nothing except poor [C#] folks.
My mama and my daddy was poor folks.
[B] My brother and [E] my sister was poor folks.
My dog and my cat was [C#] poor folks.
And these [E] days everybody is poor folks.
[B] Thank you all very much.
And [E] again, thank you for coming out tonight.
You're a good looking bunch.
I heard Herb say that I was raised in the state of Georgia and I was.
We used to live up on the side of a hill.
And that's kind of what this reminds me of because I could look out my front door and I could see this beautiful valley full of flowers.
And that's what you look like, a beautiful valley full of flowers.
Of course, I see an old weed here and there.
We come from Nashville, Tennessee, at a little place called the Grand Ole Opry and a little television show called Country's Family Reunion that I hope some of you watch.
Back in July of this year, I celebrated my 55th anniversary as a part of the Grand Ole Opry family.
Lord, I'll never forget the first night I joined the Opry.
Fifty five years ago, I was four years old.
OK, I was five years old.
[B] I was a little boy.
And [E] this is the song I sang.
I was running around the country back in those days singing this song and it was being played on the radio and all those kinds of things.
And I would tell people back then, I said, this song is the story of my life.
I just never dreamed that 55 years later, it would still be the story of my life.
But it is.
It's called We Ain't Nothing But Potholes.
[A] [E]
[B] [E] There's a whole lot of [B] people looking down there and [E] Moses and me.
Cause I didn't [B] come from a wealthy [E] family.
[A] There was ten of us [E] living in a two room shack [B] on the banks of the [E] river by the railroad [A] track.
And we kept [E] chickens in a pen in the back.
And everybody [B] said we was potholes.
[E] My daddy was a [B] farmer, but all he ever [E] raised was us.
He dug a 40 foot [B] well and 36 [E] gallons of dust.
[A] The Salvation [E] Army got us close to [B] where?
The man in the county had to cut our [A] hair.
We lived next door [E] to a millionaire.
[B] But we wasn't [E] sent potholes.
[A] We was poor folks [E] living in a rich folks world.
[F#] We sure was a [E] hungry bunch.
[A] If the wolf had ever [C#m] come up from the door, [F#] he'd have had to broke a picnic [E] lunch.
My granddaddy's food [B] was a dollar and [E] 33 cents.
That was ten dollars less [B] than the landlord wanted for [E] rent.
[A] The landlord's [E] letters got nasty and dead.
[B] He wrote get out, [E] but Paul couldn't read.
[A] And we was too broke [E] to even pay he.
[C#] But that's how it is when you're poor.
[A] [E]
[B] [E] [A] We was poor folks living [E] in a rich folks world.
[B] We sure was a [E] hungry bunch.
If [A] the wolf had ever [E] come to our front door, [F#] he'd have had to broke [C#] a picnic lunch.
[E] But we had something [B] in our house [E] money can't buy.
It kept us warm [B] in the winter, cool when the sun [E] was high.
[A] Or whenever we didn't [E] have food enough [B] and Halloween's [E] get pretty rough.
[A] We'd hatch the cracks and we set the [E] table with love.
[B]
Cause that's what [E] you do in the [C#] poor folks.
And he wasn't [E] nothing except poor [C#] folks.
My mama and my daddy was poor folks.
[B] My brother and [E] my sister was poor folks.
My dog and my cat was [C#] poor folks.
And these [E] days everybody is poor folks.
Key:
E
B
A
C#
F#
E
B
A
_ _ Thank you.
[B] Thank you all very much.
And [E] again, thank you for coming out tonight.
You're a good looking bunch.
_ I heard Herb say that I was raised in the state of Georgia and I was.
We used to live up on the side of a hill.
And that's kind of what this reminds me of because I could look out my front door and I could see this beautiful valley full of flowers.
And that's what you look like, a beautiful valley full of flowers. _ _
Of course, I see an old weed here and there.
_ _ We come from Nashville, Tennessee, at a little place called the Grand Ole Opry and a little television show called Country's Family Reunion that I hope some of you watch.
_ _ _ Back in July of this year, I celebrated my 55th anniversary as a part of the Grand Ole Opry family.
_ _ Lord, I'll never forget the first night I joined the Opry.
Fifty five years ago, I was four years old. _ _
OK, I was five years old.
[B] I was a little boy.
And [E] this is the song I sang.
I was running around the country back in those days singing this song and it was being played on the radio and all those kinds of things.
And I would tell people back then, I said, this song is the story of my life.
I just never dreamed that 55 years later, it would still be the story of my life.
But it is.
It's called We Ain't Nothing But Potholes.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ There's a whole lot of [B] people looking down there and [E] Moses and me.
_ Cause I didn't [B] come from a wealthy [E] family.
_ _ [A] There was ten of us [E] living in a two room shack [B] on the banks of the [E] river by the railroad [A] track.
And we kept [E] chickens in a pen in the back.
And everybody [B] said we was potholes. _
[E] My daddy was a [B] farmer, but all he ever [E] raised was us. _
He dug a 40 foot [B] well and 36 [E] gallons of dust.
[A] The Salvation [E] Army got us close to [B] where?
The man in the county had to cut our [A] hair.
We lived next door [E] to a millionaire.
[B] But we wasn't [E] sent potholes.
_ [A] We was poor folks [E] living in a rich folks world.
[F#] We sure was a [E] hungry bunch.
[A] If the wolf had ever [C#m] come up from the door, [F#] he'd have had to broke a picnic [E] lunch.
My granddaddy's food [B] was a dollar and [E] 33 cents.
_ _ That was ten dollars less [B] than the landlord wanted for [E] rent.
_ [A] The landlord's [E] letters got nasty and dead.
[B] He wrote get out, [E] but Paul couldn't read.
[A] And we was too broke [E] to even pay he.
[C#] But that's how it is when you're poor.
_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] We was poor folks living [E] in a rich folks world.
[B] We sure was a [E] hungry bunch.
If [A] the wolf had ever [E] come to our front door, [F#] he'd have had to broke [C#] a picnic lunch.
[E] But we had something [B] in our house [E] money can't buy.
It kept us warm [B] in the winter, cool when the sun [E] was high.
_ [A] Or whenever we didn't [E] have food enough [B] and Halloween's [E] get pretty rough.
[A] We'd hatch the cracks and we set the [E] table with love.
_ _ _ [B]
Cause that's what [E] you do in the [C#] poor folks.
And he wasn't [E] nothing except poor [C#] folks.
My mama and my daddy was poor folks.
[B] My brother and [E] my sister was poor folks.
My dog and my cat was [C#] poor folks.
And these [E] days everybody is poor folks.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] Thank you all very much.
And [E] again, thank you for coming out tonight.
You're a good looking bunch.
_ I heard Herb say that I was raised in the state of Georgia and I was.
We used to live up on the side of a hill.
And that's kind of what this reminds me of because I could look out my front door and I could see this beautiful valley full of flowers.
And that's what you look like, a beautiful valley full of flowers. _ _
Of course, I see an old weed here and there.
_ _ We come from Nashville, Tennessee, at a little place called the Grand Ole Opry and a little television show called Country's Family Reunion that I hope some of you watch.
_ _ _ Back in July of this year, I celebrated my 55th anniversary as a part of the Grand Ole Opry family.
_ _ Lord, I'll never forget the first night I joined the Opry.
Fifty five years ago, I was four years old. _ _
OK, I was five years old.
[B] I was a little boy.
And [E] this is the song I sang.
I was running around the country back in those days singing this song and it was being played on the radio and all those kinds of things.
And I would tell people back then, I said, this song is the story of my life.
I just never dreamed that 55 years later, it would still be the story of my life.
But it is.
It's called We Ain't Nothing But Potholes.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ There's a whole lot of [B] people looking down there and [E] Moses and me.
_ Cause I didn't [B] come from a wealthy [E] family.
_ _ [A] There was ten of us [E] living in a two room shack [B] on the banks of the [E] river by the railroad [A] track.
And we kept [E] chickens in a pen in the back.
And everybody [B] said we was potholes. _
[E] My daddy was a [B] farmer, but all he ever [E] raised was us. _
He dug a 40 foot [B] well and 36 [E] gallons of dust.
[A] The Salvation [E] Army got us close to [B] where?
The man in the county had to cut our [A] hair.
We lived next door [E] to a millionaire.
[B] But we wasn't [E] sent potholes.
_ [A] We was poor folks [E] living in a rich folks world.
[F#] We sure was a [E] hungry bunch.
[A] If the wolf had ever [C#m] come up from the door, [F#] he'd have had to broke a picnic [E] lunch.
My granddaddy's food [B] was a dollar and [E] 33 cents.
_ _ That was ten dollars less [B] than the landlord wanted for [E] rent.
_ [A] The landlord's [E] letters got nasty and dead.
[B] He wrote get out, [E] but Paul couldn't read.
[A] And we was too broke [E] to even pay he.
[C#] But that's how it is when you're poor.
_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] We was poor folks living [E] in a rich folks world.
[B] We sure was a [E] hungry bunch.
If [A] the wolf had ever [E] come to our front door, [F#] he'd have had to broke [C#] a picnic lunch.
[E] But we had something [B] in our house [E] money can't buy.
It kept us warm [B] in the winter, cool when the sun [E] was high.
_ [A] Or whenever we didn't [E] have food enough [B] and Halloween's [E] get pretty rough.
[A] We'd hatch the cracks and we set the [E] table with love.
_ _ _ [B]
Cause that's what [E] you do in the [C#] poor folks.
And he wasn't [E] nothing except poor [C#] folks.
My mama and my daddy was poor folks.
[B] My brother and [E] my sister was poor folks.
My dog and my cat was [C#] poor folks.
And these [E] days everybody is poor folks.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _