When Papa Played The Dobro Lyrics - Flatt And Scruggs

My papa was a hobo when they delivered me 

We didn't have a doctor 'cause he couldn't pay the fee 

But when the goin' got too bad to ease his misery 

Now papa played the dobro this way and he'd go 

When company would come around he kept the dobro hid 

He knew he couldn't play the way the other players did 

But the guitar's resonator was a gallon bucket lid 

But papa played the dobro this way and he'd go 

Well, now that papa's gone away it's hanging by the flue 

The top of it is busted and the strings are rusty too 

It will never sound the way it did when it was new 

When papa played the dobro this way and he'd go 

And he'd go pam pam