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Artist/Band: Osborne Brothers
Lyrics for Song: Ballad of Forty Dollars
Lyrics for Album: Osborne Brothers 2 (1968-1974) [Bear Family] [1995]



(Tom T. Hall)



Well, the man who preached the funeral

Said it really was a simple way to die

Well, he laid down to rest one afternoon

And never opened up his eyes.



They hired me and Fred and Joe

To dig the grave and carry up some chairs

It took us seven hours and I guess

We must've drunk a case of beer.



I guess I ought to go and watch them put him down

But I don't own the suit

Anyway when they start talking

About the fire and hell, well, I get spooked.



So I'll just sit here in my truck

And act like I don't know him when they pass

Anyway when they're all through

I got to go to work and mow the grass.



Well, here they come and who's that ridin'

In that big ole shiny limousine

Hmm, look at all that chrome I do believe

That that's the sharpest thing I've seen.



That must belong to his great Uncle

Someone said he owned a big ole farm

When they get parked I'll mosey down

And look it over, that won't do no harm.



Well, that must be the widow in the car

And would you take a look at that

That sure is a pretty dress you know

Some women do look good in black.



Why he's not even in the ground

And they say that his track is up for sale

They say she took it pretty hard

But you can't tell too much behind a veil.



Well, listen ain't that pretty

When the bugler plays the military taps

I think that when you's in the war

They always hired and played a song like that.



Well, here I am and there they go

And I guess you'd just call it my bad luck

I hope he'll rest in peace but trouble is

That fella owes me forty bucks...


Album Lyrics: Osborne Brothers 2 (1968-1974) [Bear Family] [1995]


Osborne Brothers
"Osborne Brothers 2 (1968-1974) [Bear Family] [1995]"


1. Arkansas
2. Back to the Country Roads
3. Ballad of Forty Dollars
4. Beneath Still Waters
5. Blue Moon of Kentucky
6. Color Me Lonely
7. Crying Holy Unto the Lord
8. Eight More Miles to Louisville
9. Fastest Grass Alive
10. Fireball Mail
11. High on a Hilltop
12. How Great Thou Art
13. How Long Does It Take (To Be a Stranger)
14. I Pray My Way Out of Trouble
15. I Wonder Why You Said Goodbye
16. I'll Never Love Another
17. I'll Never Shed Another Tear
18. If I Could Count on You
19. Kaw-Liga
20. Knoxville Girl
21. Let Me Be the First to Know
22. Light At the River
23. Listening to the Rain
24. Love's Gonna Live Here
25. M.A. Special
26. Midnight Angel
27. Midnight Flyer
28. Miss You Mississippi
29. Muddy Bottom
30. My Heart Would Know
31. My Little Girl in Tennessee
32. My Old Kentucky Home (Turpentine and Dandelion Win
33. My Sweet Love Ain't Around
34. Nine Pound Hammer
35. Put It Off Until Tomorrow
36. Searching for Yesterday
37. Shelly's Winter Love
38. Side Saddle
39. Siempre
40. Sledd Ridin'
41. Somebody's Back in Town
42. Sometimes You Just Can't Win
43. Steal Away and Pray
44. Take Me Home Country Roads
45. Teardrops Will Kiss the Morning Dew
46. Tears
47. Tears Are No Strangers
48. Tennessee Hound Dog
49. Tennessee Stud
50. Thanks for All the Yesterdays
51. That Was Yesterday
52. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
53. Today I Started Loving You Again
54. Tomorrow Never Comes
55. Try Me One More Time
56. Tunnel of Your Mind
57. Unfaithful One
58. Wabash Cannonball
59. Walk Softly on the Bridges
60. We're Holding On (To What We Used to Be)
61. What a Friend We Have in Jesus
62. When the Grass Grows Over Me
63. Where Does the Good Times Go
64. Where We'll Never Grow Old
65. Will You Meet Me Over Yonder
66. Will You Visit Me on Sundays
67. Windy City
68. World of Forgotten People
69. You Win Again
70. You're Heavy on My Mind
71. You're Running Wild