[Intro]
[Verse]
You know you ve done enough when every bone is sore
You know you ve prayed enough when you don t ask any more
You know you re coming to some kind of understanding
When every dream you ve dreamed has passed and you re still standing
[Verse]
Mama says, god tends to every little skinny sheep
So count your ribs and say your prayers and get to sleep
Nothing is louder to god s ears than a poor mans sorrow
Your Daddy is poor today and he will be poor tomorrow
[Chorus]
Hey, that s the poor man s house
Everybody get a look at the poor man s house
Everywhere they went before must have turned them out
And now they re living in a poor man s house
[Verse]
There s nothing like poverty to get you into heaven
They ve got a lot of wine and fish up there and the bread s unleavened
They got a lot of ears that heard a whip go crack
Lots of missing toes and fingers and scars upon their backs
[Verse]
Daddy s been working too much for days and days and doesn t eat
He doesn t say much, but I think this time it s got him beat
It isn t that he isn t strong or kind or clever
Your daddy s poor today and he ll be poor forever
[Chorus]
Hey, that s the poor man s house
Those kids are living in a poor man s house
They walk to school with the soles of their shoes worn out
And come home in the evening to a poor man s house
[Bridge]
What are you chopping that wood for
Why are you growing that corn
Mama s sewing a brand new shirt and
You re wearing the one that s torn and
I guess it s for someone else s kid who wasn t born
In a poor man s___ house
A poor man s house
[Chorus]
Hey, take a look at that house
Everybody, we re living in a poor man s house
Seems like everywhere we go, they find us out
Find out we ve been living in a poor man s house
