Bill Monroe For Breakfast - Tom T. Hall

When I was just a little boy we lived down on a farm

Seven miles from nowhere and a hundred miles from harm

We made our livin' from the dirt if anything would grow

And we got our country music from a big old radio

And we had Bill Monroe for breakfast every day

Then we’d head out to the fields a hoein' corn and mowin' hay

Aw mama loved his singin' daddy loved to hear him play

And we had Bill Monroe for breakfast every day

(fiddle — mandolin)

We had a big old battery that ran the radio

Sometimes we run it down a listenin' to the Opry Show

But we all had our instruments and most of us could play

So we had Bill Monroe for breakfast anyway

We had Bill Monroe for breakfast…

Mama was a lady and my daddy liked to preach

All we ever had was just a place to eat and sleep

If I could go back home again back to the simple ways

Oh we’d have Bill Monroe for breakfast every day

We had Bill Monroe for breakfast…

We had Bill Monroe for breakfast every day