Chords for BILL ANDERSON - Po' Folks' Christmas (1968)

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_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ There's a whole lot of people [C] looking down their noses [F] at me _ _ _
_ _ Cause I didn't come [C] from a wealthy _ [F] family _ _ _ _
_ _ [A#] I guess I learned to take it [F] for most of the year
[C] But every December [F] when Christmas drew near
[A#] And all the other [F] families were out spreading cheer
We was sitting home [C]
being poor folks
_ _ _ [F]
Our Christmas shopping [C] was thumbing through the new [F]
catalog _ _ _ _ _ _
Looking and a wishing [C] and a wanting everything [F] we saw
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A#]
Little toy trains [F] and little toy boats
[C] And sister kept looking [F] at the little girls [A#] coats
We all sat down and [F] wrote Santa a note
[C] But Santa don't come to [F] see poor folks
[C] And we wasn't nothing [F] but poor folks _
_ _ [A#] Poor folks living [F] way in the country
[C] We never heard the jingle [F] of the jingle bells
[A#] Ho, ho, ho, we was [F] po, po, po
[G] And if we had Christmas [C] we just made it ourselves
[F] Daddy took a hatchet [C] and daddy chopped a [F] pine tree down _
_ _ _ The only decorations [C]
were the ones we [F] made or found _
_ _ _ [A#] Brother saw some [F] holly in the rich man's yard
[C] He picked it up [F] fast and ran home [A#] hard
Mama knew he stole it but [F] bless her heart
[C] Christmas ain't [F] easy on poor folks
[C] And it ain't no time [F] for whipping poor folks _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ I remember one Christmas it was [C#] blowing and a [F#] snowing mean
_ _ _ _ Wasn't nothing in the kitchen [C#] but a few of mama's home [F#]
canned beans
_ _ _ [B] Some ladies from the church [F#] brought a basket of food
[C#]
Mama kind of [F#] smiled and she said that's [G#m] good
Why don't you all just [F#] take it to the folks that live down the road
They ain't got as [G#] much as we do, why [D#] they're just poor folks
[F#] She only kept a chicken and [C#] enough to make some [F#] homemade bread _ _
_ _ But you'd have thought we was [C#] feasting from the blessing that my [F#] daddy said _ _ _
_ _ [B] And later when the kids [F#] was tucked in tight
[C#] And the fire was nothing [F#] but a flickering light
[B] You ought to heard my mama sing _ [F#] _ Silent _ _ _ Night _ _ _ _
[C#] _ Cause that's what you [F#] do when you're poor [C#] folks
And we want nothing [F#] but poor folks
[C#] Christmas time [F#] when you're poor folks
[C#] _ The Lord [F#] sure must have loved us poor [C#] folks
_ He [F#] made a pass of love us
_ [C#] Everybody at my house [F#] was poor folks
[C#] Why most of the time we was [F#] so poor we couldn't even pay [C#] attention
_ _ _ [F#] Mercy _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _