Johnny Cash - Old Doc Brown lyrics

He was just an old country doctor
In a little country town
Fame and fortune had passed him by
Though we never saw him frown
As day by day in his kindly way
He'd serve 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 would receive a fee
He'd pass it onto some poor soul
That needed it worse than he
He had to sell his furniture
Couldn't pay his office rent
So to a dusty room over a livery stable
Doc Brown and his satchel went

And on the hitching 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 lying down
But his soul was no more

They found him there in that old black suit
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
Writ these words "Paid In Full"

Old Doc should've had a funeral
Fine enough for a king
It's a ghastly joke our town was broke
And no one could give a thing
'Cept Jones the undertaker
He did mighty well
Donating an old iron casket he had
Never been able to sell

And the funeral procession it wasn't much
For grace and pomp and style
But those wagon loads of
Mourners they stretched
Out for more than a mile
We wanted to give him a monument we
Kinda figured we owed him one
Because he 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
We'd painted it white and to all of us
It certainly did look fine
Now the rains and the snows have washed
Away our white trimmin's of paint
There aren't nothing left but Doc's own
Sign and that's getting pretty faint

But you can still see that old hitching post
As if an answer to our prayers
Mutely tellin' the whole wide world
Doc Brown has moved upstairs