Key: D major
Verse 1
B
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
B
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#
G
F#
pie and set it out to cool
So we'd have something good to
eat when we got home from school
B
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,
B
just look what you've done
F#
D
You ate up the cherry pie that
C#
F#
was for everyone
We made it through the dusters,
B
and the hoppers too
F#
But God help us, J. Edgar,
D
F#
'cause nothin's safe from you
B
F#
D
C#
F#
Verse 4
G
F#
We had an extra man named Bob
D
C#
F#
he wouldn't work a lick
He drank bad moonshine likker,
C#
F#
and it al ways made him sick
B
We rode to church on Sunday
F#
C#
and stayed a while in town
F#
When we reached home at suppertime,
D
G
F#
poor Bob could not be found
Verse 5
D
He wasn't in the parlor, and he
F#
wasn't in the lane
Drinking in the pantry or
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F#
sleepin' in the hay
B
His hat was in the pigpen,
F#
C#
that he always wore
F#
G
Poor Bob won't be drinking
D
F#
moonshine likker anymore
Verse 6
F#
J. Edgar, J. Edgar it just
B
don't seem fair
C#
D
You ate Bob our hired hand
C#
F#
while we were at prayer
Let's say a prayer for old Bob,
B
and our country too
F#
God help us J. Edgar,
D
C#
F#
nobody's safe from you
C#
F#
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