Looking for a song about someone up for a promotion.?

"Billy Can't Read" is the title of this Paul Overstreet song:

His momma and his daddy were very poor, and they

never went to school. Billy followed in their

footsteps, like alot of children do. He had to get

a job to help pay the bills so his younger brother

Ben, might go to school to learn to read and

write, then maybe he can teach all of them. But,

Billy can't read, no Billy can't read but he

gives two hundred percent of the minimum wage that

he receives. Sometimes he pretends like he can as

he looks and laughs at the pictures in the funny

books, but it really ain't funny you see that

Billy can't read.

Then the bossman came around and talked to Billy

one day. He says now Billy your the hardest worker

I've got and you sure deserve more pay. But the

boss at the top says I have to give every foreman

a written test. Billy hung his head cause he knew

right then he'd always have to settle for less. Cause,

Billy can't read, no Billy can't read but he

gives two hundred percent of the minimum wage that

he receives. Sometimes he pretends like he can as

he looks and laughs at the pictures in the funny

books, but it really ain't funny you see that

Billy can't read.

Little Ben never took for granted, all his brother

Billy sacrificed. Every night while the family

slept they would sit up late by that old

lamplight, soundin out the A's, and the E's and

the I's, O's, and U's. Now he's reading

evrything from the cereal box to the bible three

times through. Cause,

Billy can read, yeah Billy can read. Now the rest

of his life will be different because of the

special gift he received. Now he don't have to act

like he's laughing as he looks at the silly

pictures in those funny books. They're as funny as

they can be, now that Billy can read. His life is

much better now that Billy can read.

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a YouTube video of the song being performed by Sean O'Farrell:

...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSY2zrGgLKo