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Billy Can't Read - Paul Overstreet

His mama and daddy were very poor

And they never went to school billy followed in their

Footsteps like a lot of children do

He had to get a job to help pay the bills

So his younger brother Ben might go to school and learn

To read and write and maybe he could teach all of them

But billy can't read no billy can't read but he

Gives 200% for the minium wages that he receives sometimes

He pretends like he can as he look laughs at the pictures

In the funny books but it really ain't funny you see

That billy can't read

Then the boss man came around

Talked to billy one day

He said now billy you're the

Hardest worker I've got

And you surely deserve more pay

But the boss at the top says I have to give every

Foreman a written test Billy hung his head 'cause he

Knew right then he always have to settle for

Less 'cause Billy can't read no billy can't read but

He gives 200% of the minium wages he receives sometimes

He pretends like can as he looks laughs at the pictures

In the funny book but it really ain't

Funny you see that Billy can't read

Little ben never took for granted all his brother

Billy's sacrifice every night while the family slept

They would sit up late by that old lamp light sounding

Out the A's and the E's and the I's O's and u's

Now he is reading everything from the cereal box to

The bible three times through

'Cause billy can read yes billy can read now the rest

Of his life will be diffrent because of

The special gift he received now he don't have to

Act like he's laughing as he looks at the silly pictures

In those funny books there's as funny as they can be now that

Billy can read yeah his life 'cause much better you see

Now that billy can read