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Raised Right Men

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Raised Right Men

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There ain't enough raised right men

I said, there ain't enough raised right men

It takes a raised right man to keep a happy hen

I said, there ain't enough raised right men

Heavens to murkatroid, miners to coal

A good women can make a diamond out of a measly lump of coal

And you need the patience of a glacier

If you can wait that long

Open up his window and admit it when you're wrong

There ain't enough raised right men

Ain't enough raised right men

I said, there ain't enough raised right men

It takes raised right men to keep a happy hen

I said, there ain't enough raised right men

Mackey debiasi was a complicated man

He quarreled with his woman and she quarreled with her man

And his head was just too thick

So she knocked out a tooth

He's that lonely man on the turnpike in the toll takers booth

There ain't enough raised right men

Ain't enough raised right men

I said, there just ain't enough raised right men

It takes raised right men to keep a happy hen

I said, ain't enough raised right men

Gunplay maxwell and flat nose george

Ice pick ed newcomb on a slab in the morgue and

Flat nose looked at gunplay and they all looked at me

With a good woman's love we could have saved all three

And there ain't enough raised right

And there ain't enough raised right

And there ain't enough raised right

And there ain't enough raised right men

I said, ain't enough raised right men

It takes raised right men to keep a happy hen

I said, ain't enough raised right men

I said, there ain't enough raised right men

I said, there ain't enough raised right men

Where are the raised right men

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