Back When He Was Hungry Lyrics - Bill Anderson

He came to town with a lot of dreams 

Swapped BMG for KFC 

And four strings on his Gibson 

And now he's frying 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 god ole boy. 

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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 

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. 

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Back when BMI and CMA were only letters 

And R&R was what you took to get to feeling 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'...