Sam Bush - The Ballad Of Stringbean And Estelle lyrics

On Ridgetop, Tennessee in 1973 The brown boys k**ed Stringbean and Estelle The reason for it all is in the bib of his overalls Least that's what the brown boys would tell The thieves laid in wait for hours But things didn't go their way But he wouldn't let go of his Opry pay It must have been a terrible struggle For the cash in his bib overalls The brown boys said don't give us no trouble We came for some good, now we want it all And the thieves said stand and deliver But Stringbean would not tell And later we would learn, there was a pawn? of no return They shot him dead, and then shot Estelle He saw no smoke from the chimney So grandpa knew that something was not right It would burn ever more in his memory Picture of that dreadful aweful sight And 23 years later They tore the fireplace down There was 20.000 dollars That the brown boys, never found Well it seem like easy money But things didn't go their way It was just a simple plan, to rob a banjo man But he wouldn't let go of his Opry pay Now, string said you can't have my Opry pay They say that nothing sacred And now I have seen it all I read it in this mornings paper They auctioned off Strings overalls