po' folks

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