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The Auctioneer - Leroy Van Dyke

Now there was a boy in Arkansas

And he wouldn't listen to his ma

When she told him that he ought to go to school

He'd sneak away in the afternoon

And he'd take a little walk

And pretty soon you'd find him

At the local auction barn

He'd stand and listen carefully

Then pretty soon he began to see

How the auctioneer could talk so rapidly

He said "Oh my it's do or die

I've got to learn that auction cry

Gotta make my mark and be an auctioneer"

25 dollar 30 now 30 dollar 30 dollar

30 dollar 30 dollar give me a hollar 30 dollar

Who will bid it at a 35 dollar bid

35 dollar 35 35 make it 35 and a 35

Make it 35 and a 35

Who will bid it at a 35 dollar bid

Now time went on and he didn't rest

And everybody saw that he didn't jest

He practiced calling bids every night and day

His daddy'd find him out behind the barn

He'd be workin' up an awful storm

He tried to imitate the auctioneer

And dad said "Son we can't stand

To have a mediocre man

Selling things at auction using our good name

Now I'll send you off to the auction school

And then you'll be nobody's fool

And you can take your place among the best"

35 dollar 40 now 40 dollar 40 dollar

40 dollar 40 dollar give me a hollar 40 dollar

Who will bid it at at a 40 dollar bid

40 dollar 45 45 will you make it 45

Give me 45 and a 45

Who will bid it at a 45 dollar bid

From that boy that went to school

There grew a man who played it cool

And he came home a full-fledged auctioneer

See the people come from miles around

What to hear him make that rhythmic sound

That filled their hearts with such a happy cheer

Then his fame reached out from shore to shore

And he had all that he could do and more

He had to buy a plane to get around

Well he was the best in all the land

And everybody gave that sucker a hand

And he was the best hilly billy auctioneer

45 dollar 50 now 50 dollar 50 dollar

50 dollar 50 dollar give me a hollar 50 dollar

Who will bid it at a 50 dollar bill

50 dollar 55 55 make it 55 and a 55

Make it 55

And I sold that hog for a 50 dollar bid