I am not knocking the lasting popularity of this song ... however ... I am puzzled as to how the narrator of said song lived in a "two room shack" adjoining a river and the railroad tracks ... yet ... a MILLIONAIRE also lived in the same area, and, not just anywhere, but NEXT DOOR to the two-room shack. Was that one of those "eccentric" self-made millionaires who wants to stay connected to his roots, like ... uh ... Joe Biden? Did the illiterate father ever look for a job? Maybe the millionaire next door (a future book title) could have hired him, for something, like, maybe, skimming the leaves from the swimming pool. And, if the family was so poor, why did they continue to procreate, rather than waiting until they could afford to give the kids a decent home?
The part about the landlord is the best I know that feeling all to well. To our former renter who has been go for four months and still hasn’t come got their stuff GET OUT!!
When I was a kid I ate what ever I could cause we were poor that is sad but true I am still poor but now I make my own way cause that what u do when u poor foul this song make me smile
country music made sense, even us indigenous folks can relate as we were land based culture, meaning my people were hunter gathers society. love this song, makes sense and this is one reason I like having no money, we can get by with contentedness.
