Filipino Box Spring Hog

by Tom Waits

From the album: Mule Variations

Duration: 03:09

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Lyrics for Filipino Box Spring Hog

I hung on to 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, gave him a yell Kehoe spiked the nog With a chain-link fence and a scrap-iron jaw Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Spider rolled in from Hollister Burn On a one-eyed stolen mare Donned himself with chicken fat Sawin' on a jawbone violin there Kathleen was sittin' down in Little Red Recovery Room In her criminal underwear bra I was naked to the waist with my fierce black hound And I'm cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road Fill it with madrone and bay Stinks like hell and the neighbors complain Don't give a hoot what they say Gotta slap that hog Roll em over twice Gotta baste him with a sweeping broom You gotta swat them flies and chain up the dogs Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Rattlesnake piccata with grapes and figs Old brown Betty with a yellow wig Tain't the mince meat filagree And it ain't the turkey-neck stew And it ain't them bruleed okra seeds Though she made them especially for you Worse won a prize for her bottom black pie The beans got thrown to the dogs Jaheseus Christ, I can always make room Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog (Cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog, cookin' up a Filipino Box Spring Hog)

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