The Auctioneer-Gordon Lightfoot

[ti:The Auctioneer (Lp Version)] [ar:Gordon Lightfoot] [al:Dream Street Rose] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Auctioneer (Lp Version) - Gordon Lightfoot [00:02.10]Hey you've all regestered open the gate [00:03.79]And let them out and walk them about [00:05.30] [00:07.14]Ere we come a letter number twenty nine [00:08.91]What're you gonna gimme for there [00:10.79] [00:14.54]Ah wenta five wunna bid me biddle [00:17.00]Wanna five wanna five wanna five wudja biddle on a twenty five [00:19.60] [00:23.00]Gotta twenty five dollar bidja biddle on a five on the five [00:25.33]Wouldja biddle a on thirty dollar five [00:27.00]On a five would ya biddle on a five wouldja biddle on a thirty five [00:29.42] [00:30.97]Well there was a boy from arkansas who wouldn't listen to his ma [00:34.83]When she told him that he should go to school [00:37.15] [00:38.70]Well he'd stay away in the afternoon [00:40.78]Take a little walk and pretty soon [00:42.81]You'd find him at the local auction barn [00:44.98] [00:46.61]Well he'd stand and listen carefully [00:47.96] [00:48.70]Until at last he began to see [00:50.72]How the auctioneer could talk so rapidly [00:52.80] [00:54.45]Well he said oh my it's do or die [00:56.68]I've got to learn that auction cry [00:58.64]Gonna make my mark and be an auctioneer [01:01.00] [01:02.60]Twenty five dollar bid'ja now thirty dollar [01:04.11]Thirty wudja make it thirty bidda onna thirty dollar thirty dollar [01:06.15]Wouldja gimme thirty wouldja gimme thirty dollar bill [01:08.65] [01:10.18]I gotta thirty dolla bidja now five wouldja beedle onna [01:12.47]Thirty five biddle on a thirty five thirty five [01:14.51]Who's gonna bitta the thirty five dollar bill [01:17.04] [01:34.10]Well the time went by and he did his best [01:35.97]And all could see he did not jest [01:38.04]He practiced calling bids both night and day [01:40.02] [01:41.85]Till his pappy found him behind the barn [01:43.84]Just working up an awful storm [01:45.91]As he tried to imitate the auctioneer [01:48.47] [01:49.69]And his pop said son we just can't stand to have a mediocre man [01:53.76]Selling things at auction using our good name [01:56.17] [01:57.52]Gonna send you off to auction school [01:59.69]And then you'll be nobody's fool [02:01.64]And you can take your place among the best [02:03.91] [02:05.66]Thirty five dolla bidja now forty doller [02:07.17]Forty wouldja megga forty bidya on a forty doller forty doller [02:09.49]Wouldja gimme forty wouldja gimme forty dollar bill [02:11.71] [02:13.24]I gotta forty dollar bidya now five wouldja biddle [02:15.57]On a forty five bidgel on a forty five forty five [02:17.50]Who's gunna bidda the forty five dollar bill [02:20.20] [02:37.08]And from that boy that went to school [02:39.03]There grew a man who played it cool [02:41.00]He come back home a full fledged auctioneer [02:42.90] [02:44.72]And the people would come from miles around [02:46.75]Just to hear him make that rhythmic sound [02:48.79]That filled their hearts with such a happy cheer [02:51.18] [02:52.60]And his fame spread out from shore to shore [02:54.79]He'd all that he could do and more [02:56.61]He had to buy a plane to get around [02:58.59] [03:00.37]Well now he's the best in all the land [03:02.44]Let's pause and give that man a hand [03:04.44]Because he's the best of all the auctioneers [03:07.06] [03:08.47]Forty five dollar bidja now fifty dollar fifty [03:10.19]Wouldja make it fifty biddle onna fifty dolla fifty dolla [03:12.02]Wouldja gimme fifty wouldja gimme fifty dolla bill [03:14.85] [03:16.03]I gotta fifty dolla bidja now five wouldja [03:17.90]Biddle onna fifty five biddle onna fifty five fifty five [03:20.17]Who's gonna bitta the fifty five dollar bill [03:22.81] [03:39.51]Well I sold that hoss for fifty dollar bill