Old Man Auctioneer
Was a boy from Utah
Didn’t listen to his ma.
She said, “Better go to school”
He could see nothing wrong.
Sitting back all night long
Just to hear the old man auctioneer
Thirty-five dollar bid and then a forty dollar forty. Will ya’ gimme forty, make it
forty, bid a for a forty dollar, Will ya gimme forty, who’ll a gimme forty
dollar bid, got a forty dollar bid, and then a forty-five, will ya gimme forty-five,
to make a forty-five, will ya forty-five,
One day that old man died
Everybody, how they cried
Nobody could sing his funky song
He made his mother proud
When the boy shouted loud
I made the local auctioneer, he said
The people said
Thirty-five dollar bid and then a forty dollar forty. Will ya’ gimme forty, make it
forty, bid a for a forty dollar, Will ya gimme forty, who’ll a gimme forty
dollar bid, got a forty dollar bid, and then a forty-five, will ya gimme forty-five,
to make a forty-five, will ya forty-five, sold that hog for a forty five dollar bill.
