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Poor Man's Bread
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This is 4 Men In A Tub with me on vocals. A family song about hardtimes and strong relationships. Recorded live at the Capri Cabaret on Cape Breton Island.
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Duncan is a songwriter and playwright living on Cape Breton Island. His songs are made available to serious music publishers and recording artists who are looki
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
Peak #171
Peak in subgenre #36
Author
Duncan Wells
Rights
2009
Uploaded
November 11, 2009
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MP3 3.5 MB • 128 kbps • 3:48
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Poor Man's Bread Words & Music by D. Wells Called away to a good life, and all the promises I heard before you sell your soul for a job, find a nice wife can't figure out what we do it all for dancing on the water like I'm born to do draggin' home my body when the work day's through so tell me why I'm happy 'cos I wanna find out, is it just like my daddy once said? We were raised upon a poor man's bread. Heard about it from an old friend he said, "home's pretty nice, wouldn't wanna have to live here". so if you found all the things you were lookin' for tell me what the hell did ya come back home for butter's on the table, tea's on the stove the lines are all down and it's twenty below everybody's thinkin' back, talkin' 'bout the hard times how does a sad heart mend? it's the secret to a poor man's bread. And all that TV magic everyone seems Oh so perfect how they keep me laughing don't know why, I don't know why and when the lights go out I sit and think too much about why I'm hesitating when everybody's living in the fast lanes lately. Sister Leddie seen some tough times had herself a husband but it didn't work out mom and dad said, "Leddie wipe your tears", so she packed up her bags and she moved back home bills are in the mailbox, flour's in the bin you spend your life waiting for a ship to come in prayin' for the lottery and countin' all your sins but after everything's all said, it's hard to beat the taste of poor man's bread. So pick me up by my heart-strings home sweet home wraps strings around my finger tell my mamma she won't have to miss me her little boy isn't packin' up and leavin' Grampy sings a song to the kids on the step 'bout a child full grown wonderin' where it all went Leddie's in the kitchen with her fingers in the dough keepin' time to the tune in her head she's bakin' us a poor man's bread. Everybody's thinkin' back, talkin' 'bout the hard times how does a sad heart mend? It's the secret to a poor man's bread, it's the secret to a poor man's bread
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