Poor Monroe - Keith Whitley, Ricky Skaggs

Just because he’s lazy

Sits around with the blues

They run Monroe off

Without his shoes.

He always was lazy

And he never liked to work

But now his feet they are bare

As he runs through the dirt.

If my family should

Ever do me that way

I’d put my shoes on

And go far away.

But if they didn’t give me time

They say I had to go

Then my feet would be bare

I’d be just like Monroe.

Well, I guess they told him

They didn’t need him there

And if he was out of the way

They would draw welfare.

That’s whats messing up the country

And making it so tough

While monroe’s living it down

His family’s living it up…