Awful Hungry Hash House

Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side

Keep on the sunny side of life

It will help us on our way, it will brighten all our days

If we keep on the sunny side of life

There's a hotel in this town of dubious renown

Where they serve the hash up on the second floor

There's a graveyard in the cellar, doctor's office in the parlor

And the undertaker's got his shop next door

I'm a boarder and i dwell in that second class hotel

And the way they run their business isn't fair

'cause i'm stuck here on my bunk and i cannot get my trunk

And the rent i owe would break a millionaire

Touch me not is on the teacups, skeleton crossbones on the plates

Warning, poison's on the menu every day

Oh, the biscuits they are named and i'm going to have them framed

At that awful hungry hash house where i stay

Oh, the doughnuts, they are wooden and we have limburger puddin'

We kneel in prayer before we go to grub

If you chance to get a breeze of that hambalonia cheese

You'd have swore somebody'd hit you with a club

The sausage they are marked, if you touch them they will bark

They are relics sent from bingen on the rhine

And the boarders have the croup from drinking frozen soup

At that awful hungry hash house where i dine

And i'm never fully rested 'cause the room i rent's infested

And the critters all have nested in my clothes

And the fleas, they hold me down while the chinches creep around

And the bedbugs play pinochle on my nose

They have india rubber pickles, extra sizes for the cripples

And a dinner bell and gong they can't afford

When they open up the gate we come rolling in on skates

At that awful hungry hash house where i board

There's a woman called the duchess, brings the coffee in on crutches

And the cake looks like a sponge that's petrified

The pies are old and gray and they're only in the way

At that awful hungry hash house where i bide

Oh, the beefsteak it was rare and the butter had red hair

Baby had its feet both in the soup

The eggs they would not match and if you touched one it would hatch

And double back for safety in the coop, get on home, boy

It will help us on our way, it will brighten all our days

If we keep on the sunny side of life