Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs - Tom T. Hall

作词：Tom T. Hall

作曲：Tom T. Hall

I met him in a hospital about a year ago

And why I still remember him

I guess I'll never know

He'd lie there and cry out in a medicated fog

Here I am in this dang bed and

Who's gonna feed them hogs

Four hundred hogs they just standin' out there

My wife can't feed 'em and

My neighbors don't care

They can't get out and roam

Around like my old huntin' dogs

Here I am in this dang bed and

Who's gonna feed them hogs

His face was lean and his hands were rough

His way was hogs and his nature was tough

His doctors tried to tell him

That he may not live at all

But all he ever talked about

Was who's gonna feed them hogs

Four hundred hogs they just standin' out there

My wife can't feed 'em and

My neighbors don't care

They can't get out and roam

Around like my old huntin' dogs

Here I am in this dang bed and

Who's gonna feed them hogs

Four hundred hogs comes to eight hundred hams

And that's a lot of money for a hog-raisin' man

Four hundred hogs comes to sixteen hundred feet

The market's up and there are

People a-waitin' on that meat

Well the doctors say they do not know

What saved the man from death

But in a few days he put on his

Overalls and he left

That's all there is to this small song

But waitress before you leave

Would you bring me some

Coffee and a hot ham sandwich please

Four hundred hogs they're just standing out there

His wife couldn't feed 'em and

His neighbors didn't care

They couldn't get out and roam

Around like his old huntin' dogs