Tom Waits – Filipino Box Spring Hog (Ukulele)

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The timings on this song are all over the place, and it really helps if you have a mate with a bass drum. If you like it ---------> RATE IT ! - flatwound -
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I hung on to Mary's stump,  I danced with a soldier's glee

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With a rum soaked crook, And a big fat laugh, I spent my last dollar on thee

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I saw Bill Bones, I gave him a yell,  Kehoe spiked the nog

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With a chain link fence, And a scrap iron jaw, Cookin up a Filipino Box 
Spring hog
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Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring hog, Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring hog

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Spider rolled in from Hollister Burn on a one-eyed stolen mare

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Donned himself with chicken fat,  Sawin on a jawbone violin there

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Kathleen was sittin down in little red recovery room in her criminal 

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underwear bra,   I was naked to the waist with my fierce black hound 

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And I'm cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog

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Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog, Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog

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Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road fill it with madrone and bay

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Stinks like hell and the neighbors complain, Don't give a hoot what they say

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Ya gotta slap that hog, Roll 'em over twice, Gotta baste it with a sweeping broom 

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You gotta swat them flies, And chain up the dogs, Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog

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Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog, Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring hog

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Rattle snake piccata with grapes and figs, Old brown Betty with a yellow wig

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Tain't the mince meat filagree,      And it ain't the turkey neck stew

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And it ain't them bruleed okra seeds, Though she made them especial for you

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Worse won a prize for her bottom black pie the beans got to thrown to the 

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dogs

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Jaheseus Christ I can always make room, When they're cookin up a Filipino 

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Box Spring Hog

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Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog, Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog