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Filipino Box Spring Hog

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Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor.

He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit 'n' sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation, novelists like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, and poets like Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. Waits is often compared to Charles Bukowski, being similar both in content and lifestyle

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FILIPINO BOX SPRING HOG

Em D
I hung on to Mary's stump, I danced with a soldier's glee
Em D
With a rum soaked crook, And a big fat laugh, I spent my last dollar on thee
Em D
I saw Bill Bones, I gave him a yell, Kehoe spiked the nog
Em D Em
With a chain link fence, And a scrap iron jaw, Cookin up a Filipino Box
Spring hog
D Em D Em
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring hog, Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring hog

Em D
Spider rolled in from Hollister Burn on a one-eyed stolen mare
Em D
Donned himself with chicken fat, Sawin on a jawbone violin there
Em
Kathleen was sittin down in little red recovery room in her criminal
D Em
underwear bra, I was naked to the waist with my fierce black hound
D Em
And I'm cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
D Em D Em
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog, Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog

Em D
Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road fill it with madrone and bay
Em D
Stinks like hell and the neighbors complain, Don't give a hoot what they say
Em D
Ya gotta slap that hog, Roll 'em over twice, Gotta baste it with a sweeping broom
Em D Em
You gotta swat them flies, And chain up the dogs, Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
D Em D Em
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog, Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring hog

Em D
Rattle snake piccata with grapes and figs, Old brown Betty with a yellow wig
Em D
Tain't the mince meat filagree, And it ain't the turkey neck stew
Em D
And it ain't them bruleed okra seeds, Though she made them especial for you
Em
Worse won a prize for her bottom black pie the beans got to thrown to the
D
dogs
Em D
Jaheseus Christ I can always make room, When they're cookin up a Filipino
Em
Box Spring Hog
D Em D Em
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog, Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog