Songs that say "poor"

[low-key]

Poor Poor Pitiful (Linda Rondtadt)


Well I lay my head on the railroad track
Waiting on the Double E
But the train don't run by here no more
Poor poor pitiful me

Poor poor pitiful me
Poor poor pitiful me
Oh these boys won't let me be
Lord have mercy on me
Woe woe is me

Well I met a man out in Hollywood
Now I ain't naming names
Well he really worked me over good
Just like Jesse James
Yes he really worked me over good
He was a credit to his gender
Put me through some changes Lord
Sort of like a Waring blender

Poor poor pitiful me
Poor poor pitiful me
Oh these boys won't let me be
Lord have mercy on me
Woe woe is me

Well I met a boy in the Vieux Carres
Down in Yokohama
He picked me up and he threw me down
He said "Please don't hurt me Mama"

Poor poor pitiful me
Poor poor pitiful me
Oh these boys won't let me be
Lord have mercy on me
Woe woe is me

Poor poor poor me
Poor poor pitiful me
Poor poor poor me
Poor poor pitiful me
Poor poor poor me
Poor poor pitiful me

 

[Praying Colonel]

Old Warren Zevon song--awesome. Love his version, too.

 

[Disneylover99]

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

"But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me."

"He's just a poor boy from a poor family.
Spare him his life from this monstrosity."

 

[low-key]

Old Warren Zevon song--awesome. Love his version, too.

same here

 

[low-key]

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

"But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me."

"He's just a poor boy from a poor family.
Spare him his life from this monstrosity."

ouu good one, didnt think of it

 

[Disneylover99]

Aqualung - Jethro Tull

"Aqualung my friend, don't start away uneasy
You poor old sod, you see, it's only me."

 

[BillSears]

Patty Griffin's Poor Man's House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0qg3ENc25c

You know you've done enough when every bone is sore
You know you've prayed enough when you don't ask any more
You know you're coming to some kind of understanding
When every dream you've dreamed has passed and you're still standing
Mama says God tends to every little skinny sheep
So count your ribs and say your prayers and get to sleep
Nothing is louder to god's ears than a poor mans sorrow
Daddy is poor today and he will be poor tomorrow

Hey that's the poor man's house
Everybody get a look at the poor man's house
Everywhere they went before must have turned them out
And now they're living in a poor man's house

There's nothing like poverty to get you into heaven
They got a lot of wine and fish up there
And the bread's unleavened
They got a lot of ears that heard a whip go crack
Lots of missing toes and fingers and scars upon their backs
Daddy's been working too much for days and days
He doesn't eat
He never says much but I think this time it's got him beat
It isn't that he isn't strong or kind or clever
Your daddy's poor today
And he will be poor forever

Hey that's the poor man's house
Those kids are living in a poor man's house
They walk to school with the soles of their shoes worn out
And come home in the evening to the poor man's house

What are you chopping that wood for
Why are you growing that corn
Mama's sewing a brand new shirt and
You're wearing the one that's torn
I guess it's for some one elses kid who wasn't born
In a poor man's house

Hey take a look at that house
Everybody we're living in a poor man's house
Seems like everywhere we go they find us out
Find out that we've been living in a poor man's house

 

[Disneylover99]

Blue Collar Man - Styx

"Give me a job, give me security
Give me a chance to survive
I'm just a poor soul in the unemployment line
My God I'm hardly alive."

 

[Disneylover99]

Poor Unfortunate Souls - The song that Ursula sings in "The Little Mermaid"

 

[DisneyBill]

Does, from Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffets Its 5 o'clock Somewhere, "pour me somethin' tall an' strong" count?

If not there's Johnny Rivers song Poor Side of Town.

 

[POPCITY]

Down on the Corner - Creedence

Coat of Many Colors -Dolly

 

[low-key]

Does, from Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffets Its 5 o'clock Somewhere, "pour me somethin' tall an' strong" count?

nooooo

 

[DisneyBill]

Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool"

 

[Fortuosity]

Wayfaring Stranger

 

[Imzadi]

In The Ghetto - Elvis Presley

As the snow flies
On a cold and gray Chicago mornin
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries
Cause if there's one thing that she don't need
Its another hungry mouth to feed
In the ghetto

 

[Imzadi]

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning,
Very, very frightening me.
(Galileo) Galileo.
(Galileo) Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico.

I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me.
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.

 

[Mermaid02]

A bit of trivia about Poor Poor pitiful me- it was widely believed at the time that Zevon wrote that song as a good natured jab at his friend Jackson Browne whose songs and lyrics weren't usually terribly uplifting.

 

[Disneylover99]

House of the Rising Sun - Eric Burdon and the Animals

"There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know, I'm one"

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Poor Song, by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

 

[Tink_Or_Belle]

money Makes the world go round from Cabaret

Money makes the world go around,
The world go around,
The world go around,
Money makes the world go around,
Of that we can be sure.
(....) on being poor.