Key: D major
Verse 1
Bb
C
F
Down
on the farm we had
C
F
a pig, J. Edgar was his name
He'd eat up all our victuals
C
F
and start back up again
Bb
Just like them vacuum cleaners
F
C
they sell down in the lane
F
Well, that's how J. Edgar
C
F
Hoover got his name
Verse 2
F
Now, momma baked a cherry
C
F#
F
pie and set it out to cool
So we'd have something good to
eat when we got home from school
Bb
J. Edgar climbed up on the porch
F
C
and ate up all that pie
F
When we got home that mornin'
C
F
we heard our mamma cry
Verse 3
F
J. Edgar, J. Edgar,
Bb
just look what you've done
F
Db
You ate up the cherry pie that
C
F
was for everyone
We made it through the dusters,
Bb
and the hoppers too
F
But God help us, J. Edgar,
Db
F
'cause nothin's safe from you
Bb
F
Db
C
F
Verse 4
F#
F
We had an extra man named Bob
Db
C
F
he wouldn't work a lick
He drank bad moonshine likker,
C
F
and it al ways made him sick
Bb
We rode to church on Sunday
F
C
and stayed a while in town
F
When we reached home at suppertime,
Db
F#
F
poor Bob could not be found
Verse 5
Db
He wasn't in the parlor, and he
F
wasn't in the lane
Drinking in the pantry or
C
F
sleepin' in the hay
Bb
His hat was in the pigpen,
F
C
that he always wore
F
F#
Poor Bob won't be drinking
Db
F
moonshine likker anymore
Verse 6
F
J. Edgar, J. Edgar it just
Bb
don't seem fair
C
Db
You ate Bob our hired hand
C
F
while we were at prayer
Let's say a prayer for old Bob,
Bb
and our country too
F
God help us J. Edgar,
Db
C
F
nobody's safe from you
C
F
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