Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner 01 - Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff Chords

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_ _ I never had a pair of shoes that weren't old [B] hand-me-downs
And Daddy's [F#] morning coffee came from old leftover [C#]
ground
_ [F#] My mama wore no jewelry or any store [B]-bought stuff
And home was [F#] on a hillside [C#] forty miles from [F#] Poplar Bluff
_ [C#] Forty miles back in Missouri [B] there's a different [F#] way of life
[C#] Where a man thinks of his neighbor [B] and not his [C#] neighbor's wife
_ [F#] Life is far from fancy, sometimes [B] mighty rough
But contentment [F#] makes it worth it [C#] forty miles from [F#] Poplar Bluff
Our only family treasure was a beat-up [B] radio
But it took us [F#] to the places where we knew we'd [C#] never go
_ [F#] We never had much money, but we always [B] had enough
Cause money [F#] never mattered [C#] much forty miles from [F#] Poplar Bluff
[C#] Forty miles back in Missouri [B] there's a different [F#] way of life
[C#] Where a man thinks of his neighbor [B] and not his [C#] neighbor's wife
_ [F#] Life is far from fancy, sometimes [B] mighty rough
But contentment [F#] makes it worth it [C#] forty miles from [F#] Poplar Bluff _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Well nearly ever winter when the snow was [B] on the ground
And the roads would [F#] all be closed and we couldn't get [C#] to town
_ [F#] But if Daddy had his tobacco, Grandma had [B] her stuff
Then the winters [F#] didn't seem so long [C#] forty miles from [F#] Poplar Bluff
[C#] Forty miles back in Missouri [B] there's a different way [F#] of [C#] life
Where a man thinks of his neighbor [B] and not his neighbor's wife
_ [F#] Life is far from fancy, sometimes [B] mighty rough
But contentment makes [F#] it worth it forty [C#] miles from [F#] Poplar Bluff
[C#] Forty miles from Poplar Bluff
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