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.