A DOLLAR DOWN AND A DOLLAR A WEEK

Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston


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A friend of mine bought an automobile 
At a dollar down and a dollar a week. 
Every time he turned the wheel, 
It was a dollar down and a dollar a week.

He went riding down the road, 
Pinched this girl upon her cheek. 
Speed cop took him to the judge, 
He got a dollar down and a dollar a week.

Sixty days he laid in jail,
At a dollar down and a dollar a week, 
Another man was a lovin' his gal,
At a dollar down and a dollar a week.

When he got out he shot the man,
And laid him in the graveyard six feet deep.
And when he bought the graveyard spot,
it was a dollar down and a dollar a week.

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