Back When He Was Hungry chords by
Bill Anderson

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Verse 1
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He came to town with a lot
of dreams swapped BMG for KFC
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And four strings on his Gibson
and now he's frying chicken
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He swore someday the world of country mu
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sic but he held on to his faded dreams
Would be his'n his jeans and cowboy hat
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He drove a beat up Chevy truck he
still leans in that microphone
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And he didn't have no money says
you want some fries with that
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But he  was such a god
ole boy
Chorus: The last time that I saw him
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Back when he was hungry he was singin'
down at Tootsie's
He wrote some songs and walked the streets
a big tattoo on both his arms
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Beggin' folks to listen and his
earring was a beauty
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Sometimes he crawled just like a snake
he said I'm goin' rock'n roll
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Without a pit to hiss in those guys
make all the money
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He looked like Garth and sang like
Hank from now on you can call me
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And everybody loved him the Artist
Formerly Known As Hungry
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He  swore he'd never change a
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thing back when he was hungry
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Back when BMI and
CMA were only letters
And R&R was what you took
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to get to feeling better
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And Billboard was a road sign not
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a chart that came on Monday
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Life was oh so simple back then back
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when he was hungry
And then one day he wrote a song that
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got someone's attention
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The A&R at BMG got
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J-  O- E to listen
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Then Joe called James and
James called Don
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Don called Mrs Hilley and
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Oermann wrote he's gonna be
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The next   big hot hillbilly well
his record went to Number One
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And the good ole boy went crazy
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he hired a band then fired a band
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He toured and then got lazy
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suddenly he knew it all
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The rest of us were dum mies he
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scarcely could remember
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Back when he was hungry
Well he married and then he got divorced
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and met this cute young honey
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He thought she craved his body
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but she only craved his money
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She cleaned out his bank account
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then ran off with his drummer
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Left him where he started from
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back when he was hungry
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Well he lost his deal and life got real and he had to give up pickin'

Outro 1
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