Po' Man (First Version)

You wish you were a poor man

You wish that you would die like me

'Cause win a dime, know I'll be free

I know I'll be free, I'm a poor man

You wish you eatin' pig tails

And had to live on collard greens

I know some time that there'll be times

You wish you never seen a meal

You wish you were a poor man

You wish that you could laugh

When you will be cryin'

You wish that you could live when you will be dyin'

You wish that you could die like me

When I die, I'll be free

I'm a poor man

Oh, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yay

I'm a, I'm a, ooh

Ooh

You want to want to hear about cold?

Hey, a king filled his prison room

Just as full as the room could hold

To the top of his reach on the wall

With every known shape of the stuff

Twisted by himself off his doom

But it wasn't ransom enough, it wasn't enough

It wasn't enough

His captors accepted it all

But they didn't let go of the king

They made him send out a call

To his subjects, to gather them more

And the subjects brought all they could bring

Out of ghetto, suburb and shore

But it wasn't enough, it wasn't enough

Hey yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yay

What about, what about

And when there was no more to bring

His captors convicted the king

Of once having started a war

A strangled a wretch with a string

'Cause it wasn't enough, oh

He suffered salvation and died

Of being brought down to the real

Now he knows what it means to want

Now he knows just how it feels

To not enough, it wasn't enough

Oh, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yay

What about (What about)

What about (What about)

Ooh, ooh

You wish you were a poor man

You wish that you would die like me

'Cause win a dime, know I'll be free

I know I'll be free, I'm a poor man

Hey-hey, me-uh need-uh

Need-uh-need-uh--need-uh--need-uh--need-uh

Oh, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yay

What about, what about

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