"Raised Right Men" lyrics

"Raised Right Men"

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 murgatroid, miners to coal
A good woman 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, 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

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 taker's booth

There ain't enough raised right, ain't enough raised right men
I said there just ain't enough raised right men, huh
It takes a raised right man to keep a happy hen
I said there ain't enough raised right men

Gunplay Maxwell and Flat Nose George
Icepick Ed Newcomb on a slab in the morgue
Flat Nose looked at Gunplay and they all looked at me
With a good woman's love, we could have saved all three

There ain't enough raised right, ain't enough raised right
Ain't enough raised right, 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, 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 all the raised right men?


Thanks to Thomas McKearn for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Kathleen Brennan, Thomas Alan Waits
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