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Blues Lyrics - Lightnin' Hopkins
It's A Sin To Be Rich,
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It's A Low-Down Shame To Be Poor
by
Sam "Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of May 1972
from It's A Sin To Be Rich (Gitanes ),
You know that it's a sin to be rich but it's a low-down shame to be poor
It is a sin to be rich, you know that it's a low-down shame to be poor
You know a rich man ain't got a chance to go to heaven and a poor man got a hard way to go
You know I don't wanna be rich, I just wanna stay between rich and poor
No, I don't wanna be rich, I just wanna live between rich and poor
Yes, when I die you know I wanna go to heaven, that's when Po' Lightnin' will have a chance to go
Gabriel gonna be the next man to blow that trumpet, I wants to be there when he blow (blow, Gabriel)
Whoa, he gonna be the next man blow that trumpet, I wants to be there when po' Gabriel blow
Whoa, that's when the world be off with the people and I can lay there and rest for sure
Everybody!
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