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Subject: lyrics only 'The Auctioneer' Leroy Van Dyke
The Auctioneer
Leroy Van Dyke
(Leroy Van Dyke, Buddy Black)
1956 #19 Pop Chart
The Original Auctioneer- Album
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Intro:
Hey, well alright, sir
Here we go there
And what are we gonna give for 'em?
I have-a-six-hundred down here
And now ten and now twenty-five
And now thirty-five another fifty
Now sixty, will ya give me sixty, now?
Seventy-five-seventy-five
Another eighty-five dollars
Another buy 'em there
There was a boy in Arkansas
Who wouldn't listen to his ma
When she told him he should go to school
He'd sneak away in the afternoon
Take a little walk then pretty soon
You find him at the local auction barn
He stand and 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"
Twenty-five dollar bid
And now thirty-dollar-thirty
Will ya give me thirty-make it thirty
Bid upon it thirty dollars
Will ya give me thirty?
Who'll bid a thirty dollar bid?
Thirty dollar bid and now thirty-five
Will ya give me thirty-five-a make it thirty-five
A bid a thirty-five
Who would-a bid it at a thirty-five dollar bid?
As time went on he did his best
And all could see he didn't jest
He practiced callin' bids both night 'n day
His pap would find him behind the barn
Just a-workin' up an awful storm
As he tried to imitate the autioneer
Then his pap said, "Son we just can't stand
To have a mediocre man
Sellin' things at auction usin' our good name"
I'll send you off to auction school
Then you'll be nobody's fool
You can take your place among the best
Thirty-five dollar bid
A dollar-forty, dollar-forty
Will ya give me forty-make it forty
Bid on 'em all, vote on it all
As long as we bid forty
Who'll-a bid the forty dollar bid?
Forty-dollar-bid and now forty-five
Will ya give forty-five a-make it a-forty-five
A bid it at a forty-five
Who would-a bid it at a forty-five dollar bid?
So from that boy who went to school
There grew a man who played it cool
He came back home a full-fledged auctioneer
Then the people came from miles around
Just to hear him make that rhythmic sound
It filled their hearts with such a happy cheer
His fans bid out from shore to shore
He had all he could do and more
Had to buy a plane to get around
Now he's the tops in all the land
A-let all you give that man a hand
He's the best of all the auctioneers
Forty-five-dollar-bid
A-nother-fifty-dollar-fifty
Will ya give me fifty?
Make-it-fifty-bid on it fifty dollar
Will ya give me fifty?
Who will make it fifty dollar bid?
Fifty dollar bid-a-now fifty-five
Will ya give me fifty-five?
A make it a-fifty-five-a-bid-of-fifty dollars
Sold that a-hog for a-fifty dollar bill
Hey, well alright sir
Open the gate and let 'em out
And walk 'em boys
Here we come-a lot number 29 in
What are we gonna give for 'em?
I've twenty-five to get thirty-five
Another fifty to make it fifty
Bid it around-to fifty-now-sixty
Will ya give me sixty now?
Seventy-five-a-now-eighty-five
A ninety-five-and a hundred
And twenty-five-a fifty-seven
An-a-two-an-a-three-an-a four
Now-five-now-six-now-seven
Now-a-eight hundred dollar
With a-buy 'em there
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