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Artist/Band: Porter Wagoner
Lyrics for Song: Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff
Lyrics for Album: You Gotta Have a Licence (RCA Victor) [1970]



(Larry Kingston - Frank Dycus)



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 storebought stuff

'Cause home was just a hillside forty miles from Poplar Bluff.



Forty miles back in Missoury 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 contenment 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 Missoury 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 contenment makes it worth it forty miles from Poplar Bluff.



--- Instrumental ---



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 tabaccor and grandma had her snuff

Then the winters didn't matter forty miles from Poplar Bluff.



Forty miles back in Missoury 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 contenment makes it worth it forty miles from Poplar Bluff...


Album Lyrics: You Gotta Have a Licence (RCA Victor) [1970]


Porter Wagoner
"You Gotta Have a Licence (RCA Victor) [1970]"


1. Stranger's Story
2. Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff
3. You Gotta Have A License
4. When You're Hot You're Hot
5. The Way He Said Your Name
6. Southern Bound
7. My Special Prayer Request
8. Walk On Fool