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Billy Can't Read

In the style of

Mike Denver

Lyrics

his momma and his daddy
were very poor

and they never went to school
billy followed in their footsteps

like a lot of children do
he had to get a job

to help pay the bills
so his younger brother ben

might go to school to
learn to read and write

then maybe he can
teach all of them

but billy can't read
no billy can't read

but he gives two hundred
percent, of the minimum wage

that he receives
sometimes he pretends

like he can as he looks
and he laughs at the pictures

in the funny books
but it really ain't funny you see

that billy can't read

then the bossman
came around

and talked to billy one day
he says now billy you're

the hardest worker i've got
and you sure deserve more pay

but the boss at the top
says i have to give

every foreman a written test
billy hung his head

'cos he knew right then
he'd always have to

settle for less
'cos billy can't read

no billy can't read
but he gives two hundred

percent, of the minimum wage
that he receives

sometimes he pretends
like he can as he looks

and he laughs at the pictures
in the funny books

but it really ain't funny you see
that billy can't read

little ben never
took for granted

all his brother billy sacrificed
every night while

the family slept
they would sit up

late by that old lamplight
soundin' out the a's

and the e's and the i's
and the o's and the u's

now he's reading everything
from the cereal box

to the bible
three times through

'cos billy can read
yeah billy can read

now the rest of his life
will be different because

of the special gift he received
now he don't have to act

like he's laughing as he looks
at the silly pictures

in those funny books
there as funny as they can be

now that billy can read
yeah his life is

much better you see
now that billy can read

Details

  • Duration : 3:43
  • Key : B
  • Genre : Country
  • Year released : 2018
  • Language : English

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