Old Doc Brown Songtext
von Norma Jean

He was just an old country doctor in a little Kentucky town
And fame and fortune had passed him by, but we never saw him frown
As day by day in his kindly way he served us one and all
Many a patient forgot to pay, although Doc′s fees were small
And he needed his dimes and yet every time he received a fee
Well, he'd pass it on to some poor soul that needed it more than he
He had to sell his furniture ′cause he couldn't pay his office rent
So to a dusty room over the livery stable he and his old satchel went
And on the hitchin' post on the curb to advertise his wares
He nailed a little sign that said, "Doc Brown has moved upstairs"

Then one day he didn′t answer when they knocked upon his door
Old Doc was lyin′ down, but his soul was no more
They found him there in that old black suit
And on his face was a smile of content
But all the money they could find on
Him was just a quarter and a copper cent


So they opened up his ledger and what
They saw gave their hearts a pull
For beside each debtor's name old Doc
Had written these words, "Paid in full"

Old Doc should have had a funeral fine enough for a king

But it was a ghastly joke, the whole town
Was broke and nobody could give a thing
Except old Caleb Jones, the undertaker, he did mighty well
He donated an old iron casket he′d never been able to sell
And that funeral procession, well, it
Wasn't much for grace, pomp and style
But those wagonloads of mourners stretched out for more than a mile

We wanted to give old Doc a monument, kinda figured we owed him one
′Cause he'd made our town a better place
To live for all the good he had done
So we pulled up that old hitchin′ post where Doc had nailed his sign
We painted it white and to all of us it certainly did look fine
And now the rains and snows have washed away our white trim and paint
And there ain't nothin' left but Doc′s
Old sign and that′s gettin' kinda faint

But you can still see that old hitchin′
Post as if in answer to our prayers
Mutely tellin' the whole wide world old Doc Brown has moved upstairs