Artist	Song
Blind Alfred Reed	How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
Little Richard	Money Is
Johnny Cash	Busted
Bud Billings & Carson Robison	Poor Man's Heaven
William Moore	Ragtime Millionaire
Ernest V. Stoneman	Remember the Poor Tramp Has to Live
Toots & the Maytals	Living in the Ghetto
One String Sam	I Need a Hundred Dollars
Clarence Carter	Patches
Patsy Cline	A Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)
David Olney	My Family Owns This Town
Bob Dylan	The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
The Dils	I Hate the Rich
Cedar Creek Sheik	Jimmy Shut His Store Doors
Dave McCarn	Poor Man, Rich Man
Patty Griffin	Poor Man's House
Slaid Cleaves	Millionaire
The Almanac Singers	I Don't Want Your Millions
Merle Haggard	A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today
John Lennon	Working Class Hero
The Rakes	22 Grand Job
Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five	We Don't Work for Free
The Morells	The Man Who Has Everything
The Del Lords	How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?

Comment:

This is my take on the 13th episode of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour, "Rich Man Poor Man." Dylan used a few songs I might otherwise have included here: Bing Crosby singing "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime," Woody Guthrie's "Do Re Mi," and Tom Waits' "On the Nickle." Not too surprisingly, I had a lot easier time finding songs in my collection about being poor rather than rich. Title is from Dylan's song "When You Gonna Wake Up?" on the "Slow Train Coming" album.

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