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C       /        /        /     |F        /     G     / |
Fifteen cents is all I’ve got, a dollar's all I crave. 
F       /        C        /          |G         /      C     / | 
Fifteen cents to buy me a drink and a dollar to dig my grave.

1.

I went down to visit my uncle the other day and he was showing me 
all around his house, and it was a big ol' house. 
And he took me down the hallway and slammed open a door 
and took me into a room and he said "This here is a bedroom". 
Well I could see it was a bedroom; had lots of different beds in it .... well three. 
And he pointed to one bed over there in the corner and said 
"That bed's worth a whole heap of money; goes back to Louis XIV". 
Well I said "We've got a bed in our house goes back to IKEA on the fifteenth.

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2.

He said "you’ll have to excuse me right now 'cause I've got to go out and 
cut some stovewood, but you can carry on and have a look around. 
So I went on down the hallway and I found me a room at the back of the 
house, kinda shelved away, like maybe they didn't want me to find it or 
something, but I found it!  
Well in this room was the darnedest great big ol' horse watering trough 
you ever did see, all enamelled over, with a pipe at one end leading up to 
this thing on the wall, made of that white dish stuff, with a handle on top 
and you could turn this handle and get water out! 
Thing was no good though; had a hole in the bottom and all the water kept 
tricklin' away but I plugged it up with a corn cob and it worked just fine.  
But the thing I really come here to tell you about this evening, folks, 
was over there in the corner; 'bout a chair's height offa the floor, 
and that was the darnedest thing you ever did see for washing your feet! 
And you could jerk a lever and get clean water for the other foot too!  
And sitting on top there were these two lids. 
I say two lids but I lifted the top one and the bottom one was plum wore out, 
had a hole right through the middle of it! 
Well I took me them lids home and I used the top one for a bread board, 
and I framed my picture in the bottom one!

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A dollar to dig my grave.