Poor Man's House

[Verse 1]

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

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 man's sorrow

Your daddy's poor today and he'll be poor tomorrow

[Chorus]

Hey that's the poor man's house

Everybody get a look at the poor man's house

Evеrywhere they wеnt before must have turned them out

And now they're living in a poor man's house

[Verse 2]

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've got a lot of ears that heard a whip go crack

Lots of missing toes and fingers and scars upon their backs

Daddy's been working too hard 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 some one 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