Key: G
Introduction:
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I met him in a hospital about a year ago
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And why i still remember him i guess i'll never know
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He'd lie there and cry out in a medicated fog,
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"here i am in this dang bed and who's gonna feed them hogs?"
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"four hundred hogs, they just standin' out there
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My wife can't feed 'em and my neighbors don't care
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They can't get out and roam around like my old huntin' dogs
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Here i am in this dang bed and who's gonna feed them hogs?"
His face was lean and his hands were rough
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Four hundred hogs comes to eight hundred hams
And that's a lot of money for a hog-raisin' man