Porter Wagoner — Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff

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I never had a pair of shoes that weren't old hand me downs 
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And daddy's morning coffee came from old left over grounds 
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My momma wore no jewelry or any store bought stuff 
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Home was on a hillside forty miles from poplar bluff 
 
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Forty miles back in Missouri 
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There's a different way of life 
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Where a man thinks of his neighbor 
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And not his neighbor's wife 
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Life is far from fancy sometimes mighty rough 
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But contentment makes it worth it 
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Forty miles from poplar bluff 
 
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Our only family treasure was a beat up radio 
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And it took us to the places where we knew we'd never go 
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We’d listen to the Grand Ole Opry Bill Monroe and Roy Acuff 
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There was lots of country music forty miles from poplar bluff 
 
Repeat #2 
 
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Now sometimes in the winter when the snow was on the ground 
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The roads would all be closed and we couldn't get to town 
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But if daddy had his terbacker and grandma had her snuff 
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Then the winters wouldn’t seem so long forty miles 
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from poplar bluff 
 
Repeat #2 
  
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Forty miles from poplar bluff