Bill Monroe's Mandolin/2015

Hey, I just bought a Mandolin, at an auction on the Row,
It cost me quite a bundle, but it was shure worth all my dough,
I guess you'd call it 'second-hand', but it belonged to BILL MONROE,
Hey, I just bought a Mandolin, and I thought you'd like to know ...

He paid twohundred bucks for it, in nineteen forty-three,
But a Million-and-a-Quarter, is what it just cost me,
I coulda bought a STRADAVARIOUS, the Violin and the Bow,
But I preferred the Mandolin, that belonged to BILL MONROE.

Her body's worn and battered, but her heart is warm and strong,
Her voice is loud and lonesome, on every Bluegrass Song,
On RAWHIDE and UNCLE PEN, she's the star of every show,
That old GiBSON MANDOLIN, that belonged to BILL MONROE.

She plays waltzes, and quicksteps, hollers, reels and rags,
Breakdowns and hoedowns, outros, intros, tags,
She'll even sing the tenor part, when the Chariot Swings Low,
That old GIBSON MANDOLIN, that belonged to BILL MONROE.

Now Bill's gone to his reward, on GOD'S Golden Shore,
He didn't need that old F-5, beside him anymore,
Though she travelled half-way 'round the World, from a Florida Barber's Store,
That old GIBSON MANDOLIN. that belonged to BILL MONROE.