We Got Paid by Cash Lyrics

The song We Got Paid by Cash is performed by The Statler Brothers in the album named 30th Anniversary Celebration in the year 1995 .



It started March of sixty-four
Many years ago
We were hired by Johnny Cash
To open up his show

Four boys, a worn out Cadillac
With a road map on the dash
For the next eight and one half years
We got paid by Cash

He took us down to Nashville
To Columbia studio
Not knowing where we came from
They told us where to go

But Johnny said, "I like 'em
Don't you give them no trash"
You see, we were Johnny's little boys
And we got paid by Cash

We were there when June became
Johnny's lovin' bride
And we sang to him that mornin'
Our buddy Luther died

And we were there when the son was born
That filled them both with pride
And we were there when John remembered
God was on his side

We watched him on the concert stage
We watched him write his songs
And saw the things we had to do
And the things that could go wrong

And if we had to start again
We'd do it in a flash
'Cause we learned more than we earned
When we got paid by Cash

Then came the time when our career
Demanded that we go
And through some tears we all shook hands
That last and final show

All those years we never had
A contract or a clash
Whatever we may be today
We owe it all to Cash

We were there when June became
Johnny's lovin' bride,
And we sang to him that mornin'
Our buddy Luther died

And we were there when the son was born
That filled them both with pride
And we were there when John remembered
God was on his side

Now John will tell you there were years
When times were good and bad
But we can tell you they were some
Of the best we ever had

Carl Perkins and the Carters
And the Tennessee Three
We were one big happy family
And would have done it all for free

Don don, don don
Don don, don don



The Statler Brothers - 30th Anniversary Celebration

Dec 1995

  1. Woman Without A Home
  2. That Summer
  3. Don't Wait On Me
  4. Years Ago
  5. Child Of The Fifties
  6. Oh Baby Mine (I Get So Lonely)
  7. Guilty
  8. Elizabeth
  9. Atlanta Blue
  10. Hollywood
  11. One Takes The Blame
  12. My Only Love
  13. Hello Mary Lou
  14. Amazing Grace
  15. Sweeter And Sweeter
  16. Too Much On My Heart
  17. Count On Me
  18. Forever
  19. I'll Be The One
  20. More Like My Daddy Than Me
  21. Maple Street Memories
  22. The Best I Know How
  23. More Than A Name On A Wall
  24. Let's Get Started If We're Gonna Break My Heart
  25. Moon Pretty Moon
  26. Walking Heartaches In Disguise (Live Version)
  27. Tomorrow Never Comes (Live Version)
  28. Nobody Else
  29. Jealous Eyes
  30. Small, Small World
  31. You've Been A Mother To Me
  32. Fallin' In Love
  33. He's Always There For You
  34. Is It Your Place Or Mine
  35. It Only Hurts For A Little While
  36. Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
  37. Feeling Mighty Fine
  38. What We Love To Do
  39. Flowers on the Wall
  40. Ruthless
  41. You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith, Too
  42. Bed of Roses
  43. Do You Remember These
  44. Class of '57
  45. Carry Me Back
  46. Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott
  47. Thank You World
  48. Susan When She Tried
  49. I'll Go to My Grave Loving You
  50. Your Picture in the Paper
  51. Movies
  52. Silver Medals and Sweet Memories
  53. Some I Wrote
  54. Do You Know You Are My Sunshine
  55. Who Am I to Say
  56. Official Historian on Shirley Jean Berrell
  57. How to Be a Country Star
  58. Better Than I Did Then
  59. Charlotte's Web
  60. We Got Paid by Cash
  61. This Ole House [Live]
  62. How Great Thou Art

We Got Paid by Cash