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 snd 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   The Salvation Army gave 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 had to brought a picnic lunch   My grandaddy's pension was a dollar and thirty three cents   That was ten dollars less than the landlord wanted for rent   The landlord's letters got nasty indeed he wrote get out but pa couldn't read   We were 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...      But we had somethin' 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 howling 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 daddy was po' folks my brother and my sister was po' folks   My dog and my cat was po' folks