Poor Boy - Eddy Arnold

Poor boy, poor boy look straight ahead

Good times are coming, it has been said

Poor boy, poor boy do not lose faith

Go right on loving the human race

Born in an old shack on a very cold day

My mother had to work on the following day

Destination poverty, very little school

She taught me to respect the golden rule

Poor boy, poor boy look straight ahead

Good times are coming, it has been said

Poor boy, poor boy do not lose faith

Go right on loving the human race

Life has been a struggle moving all the time

Hanging on a piece of thread this world of mine

You mustn’t go on living inward for regret

'Cause what’s to be has done you must forget

Poor boy, poor boy look straight ahead

Good times are coming, it has been said

Poor boy, poor boy do not lose faith

Go right on loving the human race

Go right on loving the human race…