Hall, Tom T. - Ballad Of Forty Dollars Lyrics

The greatest story teller I have ever heard.Tom T Hall had a unique way to weave a story that would stay in your head.Hope he is doing well.

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They say she took pretty hard, but you can't see to much behind a veil. Tom T was the best!

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Got to go to work and mow the grass

Master Piece

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Love it. Just found you. Just subbed. Lotsa good listening ahead.😊

good luck

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TTH is the best.

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Great country

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Nice song

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"You can't tell too much behind a veil". Ain't that the truth!

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Very funny !
So long money! Ha! Ha!

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i use to dig a lot of graves with Henry and Bobbie, in the ole' days, who gonna dig mine?

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Inflation has raise the debt from forty to fifty bucks.

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Love Tom T. Hall...
Thanks for the video !!!

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Tom T Hall is a national treasure. One of the greatest songwriters ever, and a great entertainer on top of that. A true gem.

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Tom t. Is the greatest singer/songwriter/storyteller, EVER! And FUCK anyone who disagrees!😀

Tom t hall is from the town I'm from he's the pride of olive hill ky

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His memoirs - The Storytellers Nashville - are worth reading.

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Been listening to Tom T since I was a kid way back in the early 70s when my dad used to belong to the Columbia House Record Club. He had Tom T's Greatest Hits Vol 1 on 8 Track and I used to listen to that a lot. Now, 45+ years later, although I am partial to Pink Floyd, Moody Blues and RUSH I still listen to Tom on a regular basis. Still play Charlie Rich, Roger Miller, Charlie Pride and Waylon jennings on a regualr basis too.

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This song is so good. So powerfull

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"A Good Death Is Hard To Find" would have been a GREAT song title if Tom. T. Hall would have only written the lyrics to it. The title comes from a "Longmire" episode.

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I used to play these Tom. T. Hall songs on WLIZ in Lake Worth, FL back in the 60's and 70's. I worked for Sam Phillips of Sun Recording Studios/Sun Records out of Memphis. These songs made me cry THEN, and most certainly, NOW. The "Homecoming" and "I Hope It Rains At My Funeral," especially. I can't BELIEVE I remembered all of the lyrics to these great songs. Tom T. Hall- GOD Bless you.

I grew up listening to Tom T. Hall and love a lot of his tunes--But this one has always been my favorite--Happy Birthday T.T.H...!!!

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Tom T. Hall, that storyteller, that raconteur. I think he's a national treasure! Thanks for the upload.

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always made me laugh because my late oldest brother worked in a cemetery to make money for collage. he used to tell me funny stories about his work. hope that is the way i die`

This here is when music was at it's greatest.

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Well, what you do is put forty dollars in his hand as he is lying in the coffin, whomever he owes can grab it right out of his hand.

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That Lincon!
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Muthera' Chrice!

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I can't help I am old fashioned but I love the old music ! better then what they have today !

Oh yeah, love it.
thanks for the post

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Always liked this song..It reminds me of my dad in that he he drove a pickup and did odd jobs in addition to his regular job, like mowing the lawns for cemeteries and other places. He also never owned a suit! Great balled from Tom T.

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Tom T. is one of the last real song writers around....him and John Prine......I haven't listened to country for 30 years.....it's all crap now......

Tom T. Hall and John Prine are some of my favorites, too, but some of the greatest country songwriters ever are putting out albums these days. You just need to get away from pop country radio to hear them. Check out Jason Isbell, Corb Lund, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Gurf Morlix, Fred Eaglesmith, Robert Earl Keen, James McMurtry, Ben Nichols, Wayne Hancock... and that's just off the top of my head.

@CallingDoctorUnk Agreed with that. But the industry won't even label those artists country. They call it Americana. People are generally too lazy to find good music.

Aaron lewis chris stapleton sturgill simpson and a few more but it's still alive just hard to find if u dont know what to look for

@CallingDoctorUnk corb lund and rwh good but imo the others arent real country

@JENNY COOPER Well, one could argue that Tom T. Hall (and even more so John Prine) had a foot in the singer-songwriter genre and a foot in folk, so that was more the angle of my suggestions, not 'pure' modern country. But hey, thanks for weighing in!

Another great one posted by urhill! Awesome tune, friend! I can tell you have a taste for story songs as I do! I'm just an old classic rock drummer, but I sure have always (and will continue to) loved Tom T. GOD BLESS TOM T!!!!

classic, simple, country.

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love Tom t hall great songs

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i remember listing to my uncle singing this song every time we rode in his 63 C10, ill never forget the good ol' days with him

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Thanks for kind words, Mikey. On this LP, Jerry Kennedy plays spanish dobro (lead). Later, after the LP's release, Ray Edwards, multi-instrumentist and still member of Tom T.'s tour band -stage and TV- use the same "lead-melody notes".

i remember when they used to write songs

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Poetry in motion.

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'Tw a rip

Tom t hall best songwriter around

WHAT A GREAT SONG

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My favorite Tom T song - A+

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Charlie pride

i have all his albums

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Great song Tom.. Thanks

Why do people still say he is dead he is still living at 80

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Glad he's still around

Love that song. thanks TOM

I am a member of a veteran's military honor guard and I always ask the younger members if they have ever heard this song. If not I always recommend they listen to it. Thanks for making it easy for them to hear a song I have been listening to for so many years. 

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Watched him at the John Wayne Theater when he sang this. America has gone in the toilet since then.

That is the truth.
I have to watch as my grandma and grandpa, who i love very much and who raised me, become totally consumed by pharmaceuticals and my mother by meth and some f'd up ass pill. All i can do is keep a clear head, enjoy Tom T., Waylon..etc., and keep catchin these bass like they're goin' out of style.
God Bless all of you who know country music and are good Americans.
"Choose freedom over safety".

It's because Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond. Horrible shows...

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I was born in 67. I've seen a lot of shit in my time, plastic assholes come n go. Trust your guts n intestinal fortitude as far as people go. That includes family!!

Only Forty Bucks??? That was a while back!!! I've been playing and singing this song since the day I first heard it. The thought of the lyrics just crack me up.
However, what's goin' on in DC at this very moment makes me ashamed to be an American!
When the bugler played the "Military Taps" at my foster-dad's funeral in March 2001, I almost lost it, the memories came back SOOOO strong!!! It was damned hard!!!
When a sitting U.S. President says that he only likes heroes who weren't captured, it turns my stomach!!!
Thanks to my foster-dad, to U.S. Senator John Glenn, et al!!!

I was very proud to wear the uniform and to serve along side you!!!

Roy

haha I have this album..great tunes

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my favorite  tom t. song.

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i used to help dig graves when i worked for my fathers excavation company ....every time we pulled into a graveyard this song always ran through my head.

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hellbilly3611 must be my long lost twin

my late oldest brother also worked in one. had some funny stories

They don't write 'em like this anymore! Classic!

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@leonidas kakouriotis Not familiar, but I'll have to look him up . . . : )

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my moms 8 track.good memories

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Classic!!  What a great song!

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you know some women do look good in black, my mom and I shared and laughed over that line for years! thanks for the memory

Lois, you're right.... I love women who wear little black dresses!!  :) Thanks for stoppin' by!
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my late mom did, although hers wasn't a little black one

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He is one of the best!

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Thanks Orv! ...I appreciate it! ...Thanks for stoppin' by! :)
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I <3 listening to these ole Tom Tune's!!! Thanks so much for sharing this! donnamamma in dayton,ohio

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Well, some people just naturally dislike everything and can't stand people that do like something.

Whoever hit the dislike on this great old tune probably descended from a family tree with no branches...in other words, their mother and dad were closely related!!! LOL

@JackSkellington36 ...It is a great old tune! one of my favorites also.... :)
Mychal E. (Mikey) Thompson