Tom: A
Introdução:
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Hey everybody, did the news get around
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About a guy named Butcher Pete
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Oh, Pete just flew into this town
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And he's choppin' up all the women's meat
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He keeps hackin' and whackin' and smackin'
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He keeps hackin' and whackin' and smackin'
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He keeps hackin' and whackin' and smackin'
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He just hacks, whacks, choppin' that meat
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Butcher Pete's got a long sharp knife
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He starts choppin' and don't know when to stop
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All you fellas gotta watch your wives
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'Cause Pete don't care whose meat he chops
Chorus
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Ever since Pete flew into town
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He's been havin' a ball
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Just cuttin' and choppin' for miles around
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Single women, married women, old maids and all
Chorus
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Wakes up in the morning, half past five
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Chops from sunrise to sunset
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I don't see how he stays alive
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Meat's gonna be the death of ole Pete yet
Chorus
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The poe-lice put Pete in jail
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Yes, he finally met his fate
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But when they came to pay his bail
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They found him choppin' on his cell mate
Chorus
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That Butcher Pete is a crazy man
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Tries to chop down the wind and the rain
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Just hacks on anything he can get
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Say, turn this record over, you ain't heard nothin' yet