Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs Lyrics - 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 

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"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 

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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...