Charlie Poole-Hungry Hash House Chords

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[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ I'm a porter and I dwell [C] in that second-class [G] hotel.
I stay long, I think I'll [D] be insane. _
[G] For I lay here on my [C] bunk and I cannot keep [G] my trunk.
And the board I [D] hold was great, I've [G] been in there. _
[C] Oh, they feed on chicken pie [G] a few years till we die.
[A] Feet you cannot cut it with a sword.
_ Oh, [G] they undertake it hanging round.
[C] Oh, there's work to [G] be found in that awful, hungry haystack where I'm born. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ Oh, they carry me upstairs one night.
[C] I had to eat a [G] gun tonight, something they'd never [D] done before.
_ [G] Oh, the police held me down [C] while the chiefs just swept [G] around
in that awful, [E] hungry haystack where [G] I'm born.
_ [C] Oh, the feast they give was rare [G] and the butter had red hair.
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_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] Oh, the age they would not pass if [C] he'd take one he [G] would have
at that awful, hungry haystack where I stay. _ _ _
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_ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] Oh, the feast they give was rare [G] and the butter had red hair.
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Oh, _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] the age they would not pass [C] if he'd take [G] one he would have
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[E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] Oh, the feast they give was [G] rare and the butter had red hair.
[A] Baby had his feet [D] all in a seat.
_ [G] Oh, the age they would not pass [C] if he'd take one [G] he would have
at that awful, hungry haystack where I stay. _ _ _ _