9.

Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff

Larry Kingston - Frank Dycus

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I never had a pair of shoes that weren't all hand-me-downs
And daddy's mornin' coffee came from ol' left over ground
My mama wore no jewelry or any store-bought stuff
Cause home was just a hillside forty miles from Poplar Bluff

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 kinda rough
But contentment makes it worth it forty miles from Poplar Bluff

Our only family treasure was a beatup radio
And 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 forty miles from Poplar Bluff

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

Well nearly every winter when the snow was on the ground
The roads would all be closed and we couldn't get to town
But if daddy had his tobaccor and grandma had her snuff
Then the winters didn't matter forty miles from Poplar Bluff

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

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