Johnny Cash — Old Doc Brown

[Verse 1] 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 [Verse 2] 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 [Verse 3] 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 [Verse 4] 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" [Verse 5] 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 [Verse 6] 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 [Verse 7] 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 [Verse 8] 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