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Flat Broke Songs: No. 1

'Coat of Many Colors'
-- Dolly Parton (1971)

The bottom lines: "Although we had no money, I was rich as I could be/In my coat of many colors my mama made for me."

When a girl proudly displays her new, multi-colored coat, lovingly sewn by her mother from donated rags, her classmates mock her poverty -- though, until that moment, she'd never considered herself poor.

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dwtaives

Once I was a slave at the sawmill, talk about a poor boy, never saw a dollar bill!

February 15 2012 at 3:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ivpaul42

"Loan Me A Dime," Boz Scaggs

January 07 2012 at 10:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pf92079

"After all those years of payin' union dues. It sure didn't seem to count for much when we got the layoff news." .......Dwight Yoakum

August 27 2011 at 7:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Hey Mark Thomas!

Dean Martin did a song named "Houston" listen to it and tell me there is a better flat broke song.

August 18 2011 at 5:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bobby Eubank

How is Alabama's "Song of the South" not on here?

May 15 2011 at 2:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
concord1995

If Money Talks, I Wish It'd Speak to Me by Jason and Scorchers

February 11 2011 at 7:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tony

What about me and Bobby Magee by Kris Kristofferson ? who makes up these lists?

May 31 2010 at 2:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LORI

What about 'busted' by John Conlee. That is the best broke song ever. 'The bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I'm busted. Cotton is down to a quarter a pound and I'm busted.'
If anybody knows anything about how to live on a dime it is the voice of the southern people, the farmers, the country folk. They are the ones who have work hard for their money all their lives. The rich are having a hard time right now because they all have things handed to them all their lives!!! And I love country music because it is true words.

November 25 2009 at 11:42 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
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dwtaives

BUSTED WAS ON THE LIST BY J. CASH. CONLEE DID A GOOD COVER OF THE SONG

February 15 2012 at 3:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nick

Those are some good songs they picked.

August 23 2009 at 12:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
aatorres80

GEORGE JONES "These Days I Barely Get By"

July 07 2009 at 6:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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