Hawkshaw Hawkins - Mean Old Bed Bug Blues

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Did you ever see a bed bug that looks just like a whale

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Did you ever see a bed bug that looks just like a whale

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Well if you never did you never been in a real jail



There’s a boy in here with me with 99 years to go

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There’s a boy in here with me with 99 years to go

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Boy these dog gone bed bugs will get fed up on him I know

 

I got a letter from my baby she didn’t have much to say

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I got a letter from my momma she didn’t have much to say

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She said son don’t let them bed bugs whittle my daddy away



I’ll soon be leavin’ and I’ll be so glad to go

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I’ll soon be leavin’ and I’ll be so glad to go

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Cause these dog gone bed bugs done got me licked I know