My family ain't got money,
I still wear hand-me-downs
Live in a shack by the freight train
tracks in the low-rent part of town
A girl I won't marry,
she's from a wealthy background
She can't date or associate with a boy from the low-rent part of town
Someday we'll be together,
she'll wear that wedding gown
But until then I'll spend my days in the low-rent part of town
I got me a job with a circus,
working the merry-go-round
It's the best I can do,
cause I closed all the schools in the low-rent part of town
I saved up all my money,
so I could take her for a big night out
But her dad said go back to my own kind in the low-rent part of town
Someday we'll be together,
she'll wear that wedding gown
But until then I'll spend my days in the low-rent part of town
In this world there's two kind of people,
those of money and those without
And I'll scrimp and scrape so I can
escape from the low-rent part of town
I hope we'll be together,
I hope she'll wear that gown
I'll spend my days and my lonely nights in the low-rent part of town
Someday we'll be together,
she'll wear that wedding gown
But until then I'll spend my days in the low-rent part of town