Poverty

<br>There`s a way of life that most folks don`t even know about<br>When the cotton crop fails and the garden dries up because of the drought<br>And your only clothes`re hangin` on your back and they`re all wornout<br>And there`s patches on the patches on your knees<br>The night wind whistles through the cracks and holes in the bedroom walls<br>The high water comes and it takes your house barn and all<br>You work like a dog to raise a fat hog and he dies in the fall<br>It`s trouble and strife in the way of life called poverty<br>Poverty is a broken down shack and a greedy landlord<br>And your money crop beaten down by the summer storm<br>And you never see Washington`s head on a greenback dollar<br>Poverty is a wishing to the Lord that you`ve never been born<br>[ steel ]<br>Try to catch a rabbit in a knee deep snow for somethin` to eat<br>But all you catch is a winter cough and frozen feet<br>The rabbits done gone and you gotta go home without any meat<br>Wouldn`t be so bad if there wasn`t six kids depended on me<br>We`d starve to death a long time ago hadn`t been for ole blue<br>Blues mold hound dog and he`s a good in two<br>He`ll catch them coons where there ain`t no coons he`ll see us through<br>This trouble and strife in the way of life called poverty<br>Poverty is a broken down shack...<br>[ harmonica ]<br>Poverty is a workin` six days from dawn to dusk<br>Seventh day is Sunday and go to church you must<br>When they pass their heads around you just sit there with your head hung down<br>Cause you ain`t got between you and the devil and the deep blue see<br>It`s trouble and strife in the way of life called poverty<br>It`s trouble and strife in the way of life called poverty