Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Eddy Arnold
Canonical path: /eddy-arnold/poor-boy
Related lyric paths: 6
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Poor Boy
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Poor Boy
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Poor boy poor boy look straight ahead
Good times are coming it has been said
Poor boy poor boy do not lose faith
Go right on loving the human race
Born in an old shack on a very cold day
My mother had to work on the following day
Destination poverty very little school
She taught me to respect the golden rule
Poor boy poor boy look straight ahead...
Life has been a struggle moving all the time
Hanging on a piece of thread this world of mine
You mustn't go on living in such regret
What's to be is done you must forget
Poor boy poor boy look straight ahead...
Go right on loving their human race
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Eddy Arnold performs "Poor Boy", and this lyric page sits inside the Eddy Arnold catalog on LyroVerse.
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