Filipino Box Spring Hog - Lyrics

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Filipino Box Spring Hog (Tom Waits 1993)
I hung on the Mary's stump I danced with a soldier's glee With a rum-soaked crook and a big fat laugh I spent my last dollar on thee I saw Bill Bones, I gave him a yell Kehoe spiked the nog With a chain link fence and a scrap iron jaw We're cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Old John broken and Jack the queer Bought a rabbit in a crawfish bag Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie Worse brought nothin' but a bulletproof vest And her criminal underwire bra I was naked to the waist With my fierce black hound And we're cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Spider rode in from Hollister Berm With a one-eyed stolen mare Donned himself with chicken fat Sawing on a jawbone violin there Livin' is easier than falling off a log When you're cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Dig a big pit in a dirty alley road Fill it with a Madrone bag Stinks like hell and the neighbors complain Don't give a hoot what they say Turn that hog, turn him over nice Baste him with a sweeping broom You gotta swat them flies and chain up the dogs When your cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Jerk meat possum with grapes and figs old Brown Betty in a yellow wig T'aint the mince meat filagree T'aint the turkey neck stew T'aint them brulee okra seeds Though she made them special for you Worse just won a prize for her Bottom Black Pie The beans got thrown to the dogs. Ja-he-se-us Christ, I can always make room When they're cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog Cooking up a Filipino box spring hog
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