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We Got Paid By Cash
Recorded by the Statler Brothers
Written by Harold Reid and Don Reid

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It started March of sixty-four many years ago
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We were hired by Johnny Cash to open up his show
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Four boys a worn-out Cadillac with a road-map on the dash
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For the next eight and one-half years we got paid by Cash

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He took us down to Nashville to Columbia Studios
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Not knowing where we came from they told us where to go
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But Johnny said I like them don't you give them no trash
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You see we were Johnny's little boys and we got paid by Cash

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We were there when June became Johnny's loving bride
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And we sang to him that morning our buddy Luther died
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And we were there when the son was born that filled them both with pride
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And we were there when John remembered God was on his side 

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We watched on the concert stage we watched him write his songs
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And saw the things we had to do and the things that could go wrong
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And if we had to start again we'd do it in a flash
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Cause we learned more than we earned when we got paid by Cash

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And then the time when our career demanded that we go
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And through some tears we all shook hands that last and final show
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All those years we never had a contract or a plan
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Whatever we may be today we owe it all to Cash

Repeat #3

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Now John will tell you there were years when times were good and bad
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But we can tell you they were some of the best we ever had
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Carl Perkins and The Carter's and The Tennessee Three
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We were one big happy family and would have done it all for free 

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