He came to town with a lot of dreams Swapped BMG for KFC And four strings on his Gibson And now he's fryin' 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 good ole boy
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 Back when BMI and CMA were only letters And R&R was what you took to get to feelin' 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'Teksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
