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