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 Chorus: 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
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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'