Poor Monroe

Ricky Skaggs

Written by Roy Centers

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C
Just because he's lazy sits around with the blues
     G                          D7
They run Monroe off without his shoes
   G                                     C
He always was lazy and he never liked to work
                 G             D7                     G
But now his feet they are bare as he runs through the dirt

Verse 2

                                    C
If my family should ever do me that way
           G                   D7
I'd put my shoes on and go far away
    G                                        C
But if they didn't give me time say I had to go
             G             D7               G
Then my feet would be bare I'd be just like Monroe

Verse 1

C
Just because he's lazy sits around with the blues
     G                          D7
They run Monroe off without his shoes
   G                                     C
He always was lazy and he never liked to work
                 G             D7                     G
But now his feet they are bare as he runs through the dirt

Verse 3

                                                C
Well I guess they told him they didn't need him there
              G                                 D7
And if he was out of the way they would draw welfare
              G                                       C
That's what's messin' up the country and makin' it so tough
               G                  D7                 G
While Monroe's livin' it down his family's livin' it up

Verse 1

C
Just because he's lazy sits around with the blues
     G                          D7
They run Monroe off without his shoes
   G                                     C
He always was lazy and he never liked to work
                 G             D7                     G
But now his feet they are bare as he runs through the dirt