I Heard He Was Scraping Dixie

Looking For A Job

Looking For Some Work To Get Him By

Steering Clear Of All The Jails

He Was Skinny As A Rail

And His Face Would Hardly Move From Day To Day

His Face Would Hardly Move From Day To Day



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Don't You Set Your Mouth On Me

Don't You Set Your Mouth On Me

Don't You Set Your Mouth And Jump Salty As The Sea

Even Though She Was The One

Even So I'll Overcome

Don't You Set Your Mouth On Me Like I Belonged



He Learned To Cook Short Order

Was A Pour Man In A Bar

And A Bubble Dancer Till His Face Got Steamed

And I Know That He Was Bugged

Dishing Out Those Slops And Slugs

He Said That Grease Got All Up In His Dreams



Bridge:

A VFW From Somewhere

With The 1000 Yard Stare

The VA Kept Him Hanging On A Line

His Disability Was Pending

I'd Get These Scribes That He Was Sending

He'd Be Scraping By Till The Weather Warmed This Way

Scraping Dixie Till The Weather Warmed This Way



He Said He'd Be Scraping Dixie

Maybe Carolina Way

Looking For Some Cash To Pass Him Through

Well What You Gonna Do

We All Have To Line The Flue

But I'll Fight Untill They Put That Tree Suit On

I'll Be Fighting Till They Put That Tree Suit On



Chorus