Auctioneer-Leroy VanDyke

[ti:The Auctioneer] [ar:Leroy Van Dyke] [al:Top Pop 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Auctioneer - Leroy VanDyke [00:11.71]Now there was a boy in Arkansas [00:14.18]And he wouldn't listen to his ma [00:16.35]When she told him that he ought to go to school [00:20.17]He'd sneak away in the afternoon [00:22.10]And he'd take a little walk [00:23.52]And pretty soon you'd find him [00:25.01]At the local auction barn [00:28.06]He'd stand and listen carefully [00:30.04]Then pretty soon he began to see [00:32.07]How the auctioneer could talk so rapidly [00:35.56] [00:36.09]He said "Oh my it's do or die [00:38.39]I've got to learn that auction cry [00:40.10]Gotta make my mark and be an auctioneer" [00:43.76]25 dollar 30 now 30 dollar 30 dollar [00:46.66]30 dollar 30 dollar give me a hollar 30 dollar [00:48.76] [00:49.80]Who will bid it at a 35 dollar bid [00:52.47]35 dollar 35 35 make it 35 and a 35 [00:55.59]Make it 35 and a 35 [00:56.90]Who will bid it at a 35 dollar bid [00:59.59] [01:00.21]Now time went on and he didn't rest [01:02.38]And everybody saw that he didn't jest [01:04.44]He practiced calling bids every night and day [01:08.22]His daddy'd find him out behind the barn [01:10.57]He'd be workin' up an awful storm [01:12.26]He tried to imitate the auctioneer [01:15.40] [01:15.91]And dad said "Son we can't stand [01:18.20]To have a mediocre man [01:20.19]Selling things at auction using our good name [01:24.18]Now I'll send you off to the auction school [01:26.49]And then you'll be nobody's fool [01:28.31]And you can take your place among the best" [01:32.20]35 dollar 40 now 40 dollar 40 dollar [01:34.36]40 dollar 40 dollar give me a hollar 40 dollar [01:36.75]Who will bid it at at a 40 dollar bid [01:39.43] [01:40.10]40 dollar 45 45 will you make it 45 [01:42.96]Give me 45 and a 45 [01:44.70]Who will bid it at a 45 dollar bid [01:48.27]From that boy that went to school [01:50.54]There grew a man who played it cool [01:52.44]And he came home a full-fledged auctioneer [01:55.86] [01:56.62]See the people come from miles around [01:58.47]What to hear him make that rhythmic sound [02:00.61]That filled their hearts with such a happy cheer [02:03.90] [02:04.49]Then his fame reached out from shore to shore [02:06.64]And he had all that he could do and more [02:09.22]He had to buy a plane to get around [02:12.70]Well he was the best in all the land [02:14.86]And everybody gave that sucker a hand [02:17.07]And he was the best hilly billy auctioneer [02:20.82]45 dollar 50 now 50 dollar 50 dollar [02:23.11]50 dollar 50 dollar give me a hollar 50 dollar [02:25.42]Who will bid it at a 50 dollar bill [02:28.38] [02:29.20]50 dollar 55 55 make it 55 and a 55 [02:31.85]Make it 55 [02:32.81]And I sold that hog for a 50 dollar bid