DownRiver Collective - Poor Man's Home LIVE (Official Music Video)

Poor Man's Home by DownRiver Collective === listen to "Poor Man's Home": https://found.ee/Vsw6vQ from Give It All Away (Deluxe) === written by Alison Vance published by Ali Vance Publishing (BMI) --- Performed live by DownRiver Collective Ali Vance - vocals Bailey Warren - fiddle, vocals John Gray - banjo, vocals Rico Wallenda - mandolin Jonny Therrien - guitar Eli Broxham - bass --- Video production by Film Haus (https://www.filmhauscreative.com/) Filmed at the Paper House, Nashville, TN Director/DP: Daniel Cunningham Creative Director/Producer: Hugh Lindsey Gaffer: Kamden Dockens Lead PA: Gill Cunningham Recorded by James Gilchrist Mixed by Dewey Boyd --- LYRICS If you’re lookin’ for a little more Take a walk down to the pharmacy store Cause you got the time and they got the money And when the business dried up the pills become the honey Round here there ain’t much left Besides the shut down mines and chemical plants Used to work the land with sweat and blood But now there ain’t much growing in that red clay mud Gone are the days of Almost Heaven When every day you spend here’s a living hell They up and buried us beneath the pavement A poor man’s home that burned and fell They all wonder why we can’t escape Like we’ve got a choice to leave this place But school ain’t cheap on a miners pay And so the rich man says there ain’t much to be made We carried this place on our bare backs Spent every damn day just busting our ass Now our lungs are black as the mountain’s coal The corporations took the money, left us nothing to show Gone are the days of Almost Heaven When every day you spend here’s a living hell They up and buried us beneath the pavement A poor man’s home that burned and fell I’ll find my peace when I make it up to Heaven And makeup for all this time in a living hell Six feet deep underneath the rich man’s pavement Lies a poor man’s home that burned and fell Signed the homeless man from almost hell