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The Kingston Trio( Kingston Trio )
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Poverty Hill
Lyricist:Fred Hellerman, Frances Minkoff
They come in their summery dresses and jackets so fine The rich folks who measure success with a big dollar sign They gaze with delight with the rocks and the scraggly pines They come in the spring and they stay till the fall On Paradise Mountain away from it all
Stubble and stone make a hard row to hoe What little will grow, the drought will kill The summer folks call it Paradise Mountain But we call it Poverty Hill
They say we have beautiful faces as grainy as wood Yeah, they'd like to live here of all places if only they could Well, we don't get those wood, grainy faces from livin' too good It's the rocks and the dust, and the sun and the heat It's too much of work and too little to eat Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com
Stubble and stone make a hard row to hoe What little will grow, the drought will kill The summer folks call it Paradise Mountain But we call it Poverty Hill
They pack and they say, what a pity that they have to go They say that Old Smokey's so pretty all covered with snow But how we get through the winter they never will know No lard for the pantry, no grist for the mill And winter's are cold over poverty hill
Stubble and stone make a hard row to hoe What little will grow, the drought will kill The summer folks call it Paradise Mountain But we call it Poverty Hill, yes, we call it Poverty Hill
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