Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff Lyrics - Porter Wagoner

I never had a pair of shoes that weren't all hand-me-downs 

And daddy's morning coffee came from ol' left over ground 

My mama wore no jewelry or any store bought stuff 

And home was on a hillside forty miles from Poplar Bluff 

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Forty miles back in Missouri there's a different way of life 

Where a man thinks of his neighbor and not his neighbor's wife 

Life is far from fancy sometimes mighty rough 

But contentment makes it worth it forty miles from Poplar Bluff 

Our only family treasure was a beat up radio 

But it took us to the places where we knew we'd never go 

We never had much money but we always had enough 

'Cause money never mattered much forty miles from Poplar Bluff 

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Well nearly every winter when the snow is on the ground 

And the roads would all be closed and we couldn't get to town 

But if daddy had his tobacco, grandma had her snuff 

Then the winters didn't seem so long forty miles from Poplar Bluff