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Old Doc Brown
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Hank Snow
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He was just an old country doctor
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In a little Kentucky town
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Fame and fortune had passed him by
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But we never saw him frown
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As day by day in his kindly way
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He served us one and all
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Many a patient forgot to pay
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Altho' doc's fees were small
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But Old Doc Brown didn't seem to mind
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He didn't even send out bills
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His only ambition was to find
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It seems, sure cures for aches and ills
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Why nearly half the folks in my home town
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Yes, I'm one of them too
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Were ushered in by Old Doc Brown
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When we made our first debut
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Tho' he needed his dimes and there were times
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That he'd receive a fee
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He'd pass it on to some poor soul
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That needed it worse than he
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But when the depression hit our town
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And drained each meager purse
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The scanty income of Old Doc Brown
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Just went from bad to worse
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He had to sell all of his furniture
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Why? He couldn't even pay his office rent
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So to a dusty room over a Livery stable
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Doc Brown and his practice went
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On the hitchin' post at the curb below
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To advertise his wares
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He nailed a little sign that read
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'Doc Brown has moved upstairs'
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There he kept on helpin' folks get well
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And his heart was just pure gold
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But anyone with eyes could see
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That Doc was gettin' old
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And then one day he didn't even answer
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When they knocked upon his door
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Old Doc Brown was a-lyin' down
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But his soul was no more
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They found him there in an old black suit
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And on his face was a smile of content
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But all the money they could find on him
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Was a quarter and a copper cent
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So they opened up his ledger
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And what they saw gave their hearts a pull
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Beside each debter's name
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Old Doc had written these words, 'Paid in full'
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It looked like the potter's field for Doc
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That caused us some alarm
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Til someone 'membered the family graveyard
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Out on the Simmons farm
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Old Doc had brought six of their kids
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And Simmons was a grateful cuss
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He said, "Doc's been like one of the family
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So, you can let him sleep with us"
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Old Doc should have had a funeral
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Fine enough for a king
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It's a ghastly joke that our town was broke
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And no one could give a thing
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'Cept Jones, the undertaker
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He did mighty well
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Donatin' an old iron casket
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That he'd never been able to sell
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And the funeral procession, it wasn't much
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For grace and pomp and style
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But those wagon loads of mourners
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They stretched out for more than a mile
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And we breathed a prayer as we laid him there
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To rest beneath the sod
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This man who'd earned the right
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To be on speaking terms with God
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His grave was covered with flowers
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But not from the floral shops
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Just roses and things from folks' garden
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And one or two dandelion pots
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For the depression had hit our little town hard
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And each man carried a load
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So some just picked the wildflowers
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As they passed along the road
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We wanted to give him a monument
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Kinda figured we owed him one
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'Cause he'd made our town a better place
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For all the good he'd done
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But monuments cost money
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So, we did the best we could
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And on his grave we gently placed
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A monument of wood
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We pulled up that old hitchin' post
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Where Doc had nailed his sign
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And we painted it white and to all of us
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It certainly did look fine
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Now the rains and snow has washed away
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Our white trimmings of paint
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And there ain't nothin' left but Doc's own sign
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And that is gettin' faint
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Still, when southern breezes and flickering stars
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Caress our sleeping town
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And the pale moon shines through Kentucky pines
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On the grave of Old Doc Brown
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You can still see that old hitchin' post
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As if an answer to our prayers
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Mutely telling the whole wide world
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'Doc Brown has moved upstairs'
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