I helped you baby, you couldn't help yourself Now, you on your feet, helpin' somebody else I'm a poor man, but a good man, been treated wrong She walked off and left me, she didn't say a word Wasn't nothin' she knowed, but somethin' she heard I'm a poor man, but a good man, been treated wrong If you don't b'lieve me, people, wait a right round and see Somebody gonna mistreat you, like you mistreated me I walked down to the station, i looked up on the wall My money was too light, i didn't go nowhere at all I'm a poor man, but a good man, been treated wrong