POOR MAN'S HEAVEN is sung by Bud Billings and Carson Robison on "Poor Man's Heaven: Blues & Tales of the Great Depression," which is volume 6 in a series of CDs called "When the Sun Goes Down: The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll" published on the Bluebird label. Here are a couple of excerpts from sound samples:

"...that grow by a lakeful of beer.

We'll live on champagne and ride on the train
And sleep in the Pullman at night,
And if someone should dare to ask for our fare...."

"...In poor man's heaven, the land of the free,
There's nothin' up there but good luck.
There's strawberry pie that's twenty feet high
And whipped cream they bring in a truck.

"We'll own all the banks and shoot all the cranks
And we won't give a durn who we hurt;
And the millionaire's son won't have so much fun
When we put him to shovelin' dirt...."

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By the way, there is another song by Mike Cross called POOR MAN'S HEAVEN, unrelated, I think, to the above song:

Down on my knees, and a seven-come-eleven,
A rich man's hell is a poor man's heaven.
It all just depends on where you stand,
Whether you're in the desert or the Promised Land.