Bill Anderson - Back When He Was Hungry Lyrics

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he came to town with a lot of dreams

Swapped bmg for kfc

And four strings on his gibson

And now he's fryin' chicken

He swore someday the world of country music

But he held on to his faded dreams

Would be his'n his jeans and cowboy hat

He drove a beat up chevy truck

He still leans in that microphone

And he didn't have no money

Says you want some fries with that

But he was such a good ole boy

The last time that i saw him

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

Beggin' folks to listen and his earring was a beauty

Sometimes he crawled just like a snake

He said i'm goin' rock 'n roll

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

And everybody loved him

The artist formerly known as hungry

He swore he'd never change a thing

Back when he was hungry

Back when bmi and cma were only letters

And r&r was what you took to get to feelin' better

And billboard was a road sign

Not a chart that came on monday

Life was oh so simple back then

Back when he was hungry

And then one day he wrote a song

That got someone's attention

The a&r at bmg got j o e to listen

Then joe called james and james called don

Don called mrs hilley and oermann wrote

"he's gonna be the next big hot hillbilly"

Well his record went to number one

And the good ole boy went crazy

He hired a band then fired a band

He toured and then got lazy

Suddenly he knew it all

The rest of us were dummies

He scarcely could remember

Back when he was hungry

Well he married and then he got divorced

And met this cute young honey

He thought she craved his body

But she only craved his money

She cleaned out his bank account

Then ran off with his drummer

Left him where he started

From back when he was hungry

Well he lost his deal and life got real

And he had to give up pickin'

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