Tune Of A Twenty Dollar Bill

It was the first time ever he saw her

He saw his future in a long white cotton gown

Sittin' there at the church house, she was gonna get

baptized

They was gonna have dinner on the grounds

So the very next Friday, he got off at the sawmill

He slicked his hair back, he had a pocket full of pay

When she opened up the front door, he was grinnin' like

a possum

As he handed her a daisy, she heard him say...

Hey let's go dancin' to the tune of a twenty dollar

bill

They've got a fine fiddle band at the barn up on the

hill

And by midnight we just might wind up dancin' standin'

still

By my Daddy's lanern light, let me walk ya home

After they got married, it didn't seem like no time

They's a sayin' their goodbye's he's a goin' to the big

world war

'Bout a lifetime later, she's a waitin' at the depot

He said I ain't a gonna leave you, no never no more

Said let's go dancin' to the tune of a twenty dollar

bill

They've got a fine fiddle band at the barn up on the

hill

And by midnight we just might wind up dancin' standin'

still

By my Daddy's lantern light, let me walk ya home

In front of friends and kinfolk and all of us grandkids

In the same little church house, in a long white cotton

gown

He bent down and he kissed her, he said I'm right

behind ya honey

It wasn't long 'til we laid him in the ground

And now they're dancin' to the tune of a twenty dollar

bill

They've got a fine fiddle band at the barn up on the

hill

And by midnight they just might wind up dancin'

standin' still

By the Father's lantern light, they're walkin' home