Written by Tom T. Hall
A When I was just a little boy, we D lived down on a A farm Seven miles from nowhere and a hundred miles from E7 harm We A made our livin' from the dirt, if D anything would A grow And we got our country music from a E7 big old radi-{A} o. And; CHORUS We had D Bill Monroe for breakfast ev'ry A day Then we'd head out to the fields, a-hoein' corn and mowin' E7 hay Aw! A mama loved his singin', daddy D loved to hear him A play And we had Bill Monroe for E7 breakfast ev'ry A day. We had a big old battery that ran the radio Sometimes we run it down, 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. CHORUS 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 ev'ry day. TAG: We had Bill Monroe for breakfast ev'ry day. SOURCE: TOM T. HALL/HOMEGROWN