Give Kudos?
Are you sure you want to give kudos to PierreLeveillee?

Add To Songbook?
Are you sure you want to add this song to your songbook?


3,223 bands | 37,791 songs
Search: Register FREE! | Login
Browse Songs:
Browse Bands:
Tool Panel
Discuss This Song

1 2 3 4 5



Johnny Cash - Old Doc Brown (Chord)
Submitter: PierreLeveillee (0) on 3/28/16
Month Views: 456 | Total Views: 2,254
Moderator: JDNELSON | Report This Song?
Song Tools

Comment

Songbook

Kudos

Show Chords

Print

OLD DOC BROWN

SPOKEN: STRUM A CHORD SOFTLY  

He was just an old country doctor 
In a little country town
Fame and fortune had passed him by
But we never saw him frown
As day by day in his kindly way
He served 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 on to some poor soul
That needed it worse than he
He had to sell all his furniture
Why, he couldn't even pay his office rent
So to a dusty room over a Livery stable
Doc Brown and his practice went
On the hitchin' post at the curb below
To advertise his wares
He nailed a little sign that read
'Doc Brown has moved upstairs';

One day he didn't answer
When they knocked upon his door
Old Doc Brown was a-lyin' down
But his soul - was no more;

They found him there in an old black suit 
And 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 have had a funeral
Fine enough for a king
It's a ghastly joke that our town was broke 
And no one could give a thing
'Crept Jones, the undertaker
He did mighty well
Donatin' an old iron casket 
That he'd never been able to sell;

And the funeral procession, it wasn't much
For grace and pomp and style
But those wags of mourners
They stretched out for more than a mile
 
 


We wanted to give him a monument
Kinda figured we owed him one
'Cause he'd made our town a better place 
For all the good he'd done
We pulled up that old hitchin' post
Where Doc had nailed his sign
And we painted it white and to all of us
It certainly did look fine
Now the rains and snow has washed away
Our white trimmings of paint
There ain't nothin' left but Doc's own sign
And that is gettin' faint;
 
But you can still see that old hitchin' post
As if an answer to our prayers
Mutely telling the whole wide world
'Doc Brown has moved up stairs'."
 
 Comments (click here to add a non-facebook comment)
Home | FAQs | Privacy | Terms | Advertise | Contact
Top 100 Tab Sites