Hungry Hash House Blues
Key: C

Chords and Lyrics Provided by Judy Muldawer
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File Created 11/28/14
File Edited 07/24/19

Chorus:

C
I'm a boarder and I dwell
        F               C
In that second class ho-tel
                                       G
If I stay here long I think I'll be in-sane
      C
For I lay here on my bunk
      F
And I cannot keep my trunk
        C                 G                C
And the board I owe would  break a million-aire

        F
Oh they feed on chicken pie
       C
If you eat it you may die
D                             G
Beef you cannot cut it with a sword
        C
Oh, the undertakers hang around
            F
For there's work to be found
        C            G                  C
In that awful hungry hash house where I board

Oh they carried me upstairs one night
      F                C
I had  neither gun nor knife
                                 G
Something they had never done be-fore
       C
Oh the fleas held me down
          F
While the chinches crept around
        C            G                  C
In that awful hungry hash house where I board

        F
Oh, the beefsteak it was rare
        C
And the  butter had red hair
D                            G
Baby had its feet all in the soup
        C
Oh, the eggs they would not catch
       F
If you touched one she would hatch
       C            G                  C
In the awful hungry hash house where I stay
      
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