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Poverty Playlist: Creedence Clearwater Revival Roundup

My friend Katie crowd-sourced a pretty sweet playlist of songs for the broke on her BrokeAss Blog at ChicagoNow. Aside from just generally doing a bang-up job on a subject I failed to stick with on my own piece of Web real estate, it’s a good –and useful– read, so check it out. I pitched Fortunate Son by CCR to round out her list and realized I’ve never posted it here

“Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don’t they help themselves? oh.
But when the taxman come to the door,
Lord, the house look a like a rummage sale, yes.”

But, I got to thinking, as I do every so often… about how most of their tunes are for the low down, down and out. Here’s what Willy and the Poor Boys have for us:

There’s Lodi…

“Rode in on the Greyhound
I’ll be walkin’ out if I go
I was just passin’ through
Must be seven seven months or more
Ran out of time and money
Looks like they took my friends
Oh ! Lord I’m stuck in Lodi again”

And The Working Man

“Well, I was born on a Sunday,
By Thursday I had me a job,
I was born on a Sunday,
By Thursday,
I was working out on the job,
I ain’t never had no day off,
Since I learned right from wrong.”

Penthouse Pauper, too:

“I’m the penthouse pauper;
I got nothin’ to my name.
I’m the penthouse pauper; baby,
I got nothing to my name.
I can be most anything,
’cause when you got nothin’ it’s all the same.”

And if you’re looking to just dance your destitution, try on Poorboy Shuffle

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