Johnny Cash - Old Doc Brown: chords

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He was just an old country doctor
In a little country town
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Fame and fortune had passed him by
But we never saw him frown
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As day by day in his kindly way
He served us one and all
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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'."