Two For a Dollar

(Bobby Gosh)



Last Saturday morning I shut off the alarm

Drove out in the valley to old Dan Cook's farm

A sign on the fence post put up with one nail

Read 10 a.m. sharp for big public sale.



At least forty people were out in the yard

Looking for bargains they were dealing real hard

To buy up the pieces and find out the worth

Of fifty years living so close to the earth.



Who'll give me five, I got five now who'll give me ten

I'll call out the numbers and you just say when

For a lifetime of mem'ries some happy some sad

Two for a dollar, the price sure ain't bad.



No bids for the carriage rottin' out by the shed

The one that they drove on the night they were wed

Five bucks for the brass bed a little bit worn

Not much for the place where the five kids were born.



And the old parlor piano still sounded alright

Just as good as it did many Saturday nights

And the big round oak table where dinner was made

Brought almost as much as the tiffany shade.



Who'll give me five, I got five now who'll give me ten

I'll call out the numbers and you just say when

For a lifetime of mem'ries some happy some sad

Two for a dollar, the price sure ain't bad.



Two for a dollar, the price sure ain't bad...