There's a way of life that most folks don't even
know about When the cotton crop fails and the
garden dries up because of the drought And your
only clothes're hangin' on your back and they're
all wornout And there's patches on the patches on
your knees The night wind whistles through the
cracks and holes in the bedroom walls The high
water comes and it takes your house barn and all
You work like a dog to raise a fat hog and he dies
in the fall It's trouble and strife in the way of
life called poverty Poverty is a broken down shack
and a greedy landlord And your money crop beaten
down by the summer storm And you never see
Washington's head on a greenback dollar Poverty is
a wishing to the Lord that you've never been born
steel
Try to catch a rabbit in a knee deep snow for
somethin' to eat But all you catch is a winter
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you gotta go home without any meat Wouldn't be so
bad if there wasn't six kids depended on me We'd
starve to death a long time ago hadn't been for
ole blue Blues mold hound dog and he's a good in
two He'll catch them coons where there ain't no
coons he'll see us through This trouble and strife
in the way of life called poverty Poverty is a
broken down shack... harmonica
Poverty is a workin' six days from dawn to dusk
Seventh day is Sunday and go to church you must
When they pass their heads around you just sit
there with your head hung down Cause you ain't got
between you and the devil and the deep blue see
It's trouble and strife in the way of life called
poverty It's trouble and strife in the way of life
called poverty