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Johnny Cash - Old Doc Brown Lyrics

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  • He was just an old country doctor in a little country town
  • Fame and fortune had passed him by though we never saw him frown
  • As day by day in his kindly way he'd serve us one and all
  • Many a patient forgot to pay although Doc's fees were small
  • Though he needed his dimes and there were times that he'd receive a fee
  • He'd pass it onto some poor soul that needed it worse than he
  • He had to sell his furniture couldn't pay his office rent
  • So to a dusty room over a livery stable Doc Brown and his satchel went
  • And on the hitchin' post at the kerb below to advertise his wares
  • He nailed a little sign that read Doc Brown has moved upstairs
  • And one day he didn't answer when they knocked upon his door
  • Old Doc Brown was layin' down but his soul was no more
  • They found him there in that old black suit on his face was a smile of content
  • But all the money they could find on him was a quarter and a copper cent
  • So they opened up his ledger and what they saw gave their hearts a pull
  • Beside each debtor's name old Doc had write these words Paid In Full
  • Old Doc should had a funeral fine enough for a king
  • It's a ghastly joke our town was broke and no one could give a thing
  • Cept Jones an undertaker he did mighty well
  • Donated an old iron casket he had never been able to sell
  • And the funeral procession it wasn't much for grace and pomp and the style
  • But those wagon loads of mourners they stretched out for more than a mile
  • We wanted to give him a monument we kinda figured we owed him one
  • Cause he made our town a better place for all the good he'd done
  • We pulled up that old hitchin' post where Doc had nailed a sign
  • We'd painted it white and to all of us it certainly did look fine
  • Now the rains and the snows have washed away our white trimmin's of paint
  • There ain't nothin' left but Doc's own sign and that's gettin' pretty faint
  • But you can still see that old hitchin' post as if in answer to our prayers
  • Mutually tellin' the whole wide world Doc Brown has moved upstairs

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