Poor Boy chords by Tyler Farr

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
D G D G

Verse 1:
D         G
I used to drive my truck ‘cross the train tracks
D         G
A hard day's work piled up in the back
Bm         A                 G
Muddy boots and a grease stained Atlanta Braves cap, yeah
G
I was just a poor boy

D           G
I felt a little outta place on your front porch
D            G            Bm
The look on your daddy’s face when he opened the door
           A           G
Everything he didn’t say told me he wasn’t sure
 G
‘Bout this poor boy

Chorus:
Bm       D      A
But you didn’t worry ‘bout what I wasn’t
G     Bm     A
You didn’t care that I came from nothin’
G      D
All I could give you was my love and
  Bm A   G
The key to the heart
G       D G D G
Of a poor boy


Verse 2:
D              G            D
I'd crack a smile when them rich boys would look our way
                G         Bm
I knew that they were thinkin’, man there ain’t no way
             D            G
He can't keep her happy, no that girl won’t ever stay
G
With that poor boy


Chorus:
Bm       D      A
But you didn’t worry ‘bout what I wasn’t
G     Bm     A
You didn’t care that I came from nothin’
G      D
All I could give you was my love and
  Bm A   G
The key to the heart
G
Of a poor boy

Solo:
Bm A G A

Bridge:
   Em
Baby we just kept on rockin’ on
   A
In a beat up truck, a Keith Whitley song
Em
Girl your heart of gold
G     A
Proved ‘em all wrong


Chorus:
    G     D
‘Cause you didn’t worry ‘bout what I wasn’t
 G     Bm      A
You didn’t care that I came from nothin’
G      D
All I could give you was my love and
  Bm A   G
The key to the heart
G       D
Of a poor boy


Outro:
G           D
I was just a poor boy
G          D G  D  G D
You loved a poor boy, yeah, yeah