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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



Autor(en): CLYDE RED FOLEY


Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash Slipcase
Album Johnny Cash Slipcase
Veröffentlichungsdatum
04-04-2008

1   Run Softly, Blue River
2   Frankie’s Man, Johnny
3   That’s All Over
4   The Troubadour
5   One More Ride
6   That’s Enough
7   I Still Miss Someone
8   Don't Take Your Guns to Town
9   I’d Rather Die Young
10   Pickin' Time
11   Shepherd of My Heart
12   Supper-Time
13   Oh What A Dream - take 1
14   Mama's Baby
15   Fools Hall of Fame
16   I’ll Remember You
17   Cold Shoulder
18   Walkin' the Blues
19   It Was Jesus
20   I Saw a Man
21   Are All the Children In
22   The Old Account
23   Lead Me Gently Home
24   Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
25   Snow in His Hair
26   Lead Me Father
27   I Call Him
28   These Things Shall Pass
29   He'll Be a Friend
30   God Will
31   It Was Jesus (Mono EP Version)
32   Five Feet High And Rising
33   The Man On the Hill
34   The Great Speckled Bird
35   I Want to Go Home
36   Old Apache Squaw
37   Don’t Step On Mother’s Roses
38   My Grandfather’s Clock
39   I Got Stripes
40   Loading Coal
41   Slow Rider
42   Lumberjack
43   Dorraine of Ponchartrain
44   Going to Memphis
45   When Papa Played the Dobro
46   Boss Jack
47   Old Doc Brown
48   The Fable of Willie Brown
49   Second Honeymoon
50   The Ballad of the Harp Weaver
51   Smiling Bill McCall
52   Orange Blossom Special
53   The Long Black Veil
54   It Ain't Me, Babe
55   The Wall
56   Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
57   You Wild Colorado (Mono)
58   Mama, You Been On My Mind
59   When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below) [Mono]
60   All of God's Children Ain't Free
61   Danny Boy
62   Wildwood Flower
63   Amen
64   Engine 143 (Mono)
65   (I'm Proud) The Baby Is Mine
66   Mama, You’ve Been on My Mind




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