| 词条 | Ballad of Forty Dollars | ||||||
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| name = Ballad of Forty Dollars | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Tom T. Hall | album = Ballad of Forty Dollars and His Other Great Songs | B-side = Highways | released = October 28, 1968 | format = | recorded = September 1, 1968 Columbia Studio, Nashville, Tennessee | studio = | venue = | genre = Country | length = 3:09 | label = Mercury 72863 | writer = Tom T. Hall | producer = Jerry Kennedy | prev_title = I Ain't Got the Time | prev_year = 1968 | next_title = Strawberry Farms | next_year = 1969 }} "Ballad of Forty Dollars" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Tom T. Hall. It was released in October 1968 as the fourth and final single from the album of the same name, Ballad of Forty Dollars. The song was Hall's first top 10 on the U.S. country singles chart, peaking at number 4 on both the U.S. chart and the Canadian country singles chart.[1] Content{{urs|date=August 2016}}The song is narrated by a cemetery caretaker. He observes the funeral of a man and the people coming bid him farewell, the preacher, the great-uncle’s limousine, his grieving wife, the military "Taps" (as he probably was a war veteran), and the gossip about his estate. BackgroundHall took this song, as many of his hits, from personal experience; he was working with his aunt on a cemetery and was observing many funerals and the people coming, then talking about the guy who owed him 40 dollars. He said: “You're certainly not going to go to the widow and collect it. I guess it's lost.”[2] Chart performance{{urs|date=August 2016}}
References1. ^{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=149}} 2. ^In the Words of Tom T. Hall ... External links
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