Chords for BILL ANDERSON SINGING POOR FOLKS IN 1967.

[F] _ _ _ _ _ There's a whole lot of people [C] looking down their noses [F] at me
_ _ _ _ _ Cause I [C] didn't come from a wealthy _ [F] family _
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Suddenly, [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] I mean _ _
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_ There's a whole lot of [C] people looking down their [F] noses at me _ _ _
_ _ Cause I didn't [Dm] come from [C] a wealthy _ _ [F] family _ _ _ _
There [Bb] was ten of us living [F] in a tomb shack
[C] On the banks of the river [F] by the railroad [Bb] track
We kept chickens and a [F] pen and a fact
And everybody said [C] we was poor folks
My _ _ [F] daddy was a farmer, [C] but all he ever [F] raised was us
_ _ _ He dug a forty foot well, [C] hit thirty six [F] gallons of dust
_ _ _ _ [Bb] The Salvation Army gave us [F] clothes to wear
[C] A man from the county [G] came to cut our [F] hair
[Bb] We lived next door to [F] a millionaire
_ [C] But we was nothing [F] except poor _ folks
[Gb] _ [Ab] _ [A] _ [Bb] All fools to live in a rich, filthy world
[C] We sure was a hungry [F]
bunch
[Gm] If the wolf had ever come to [F] our front door
[Gm] He'd have had to brought a picnic [F] lunch
But we had something [C] in our house money [F] can't _ buy
_ It was warm in the winter, [C] _
cool when the [F] sun was high _
_ _ [Bb] For whenever we didn't have [Dm] food [F] enough
[C] And the howling winds [F] would get pretty rough
[Bb] We'd patch the cracks and set the [C] table _ _ with _ love _ _
Cause that's what you [F] do when you're poor folks
[C] And we was nothing except [F] poor folks
_ _ [C] Mama and daddy [F] was poor folks
_ _ [C] Brother and sister [F] was poor folks
[C] My dog and my [F] cat was poor folks
_ [C] And even our [F] drummer is poor folks _ _ _ _ _ _