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This next song I’ma sing is a song I wrote about a man I used to know. It’s called “Big Hole Blues.”

My man is digging in my dirt

Digging a big hole just for me.

He’s digging in my dirt

Digging a big hole just for me.

It’s as long as I am tall, goes down as deep as the deep blue sea.

He says the hole he’s digging is hole enough for two.

He says the hole he’s digging is hole enough for two.

He says he’ll put me down there in it

And put my boyfriend in it too.

He says he’s just pulling my leg, but I got to play it safe

He says he’s just pulling my leg, but I got to play it safe

I done packed up all my clothes, I’m gonna leave this big old holey place.

Everybody’s got a Hole. Ain’t nobody ever lived who don’t got a Hole in them somewheres. When I say Hole you know what I’m talking about, dontcha? Soft spot, sweet spot, opening, blind spot, Itch, Gap, call it what you want but I call it a Hole. To get the best of a situation you gotta know a man’s Hole. Everybody’s got one, just don’t everybody got one in the same place. Some got a Hole in they head. Now, you may think “Hole in the head” is just another way of saying stupid, but “Hole in the head” means more than that. It means that they got a lack and a craving for knowledge. Not just the lack, now, but the craving too. A man could have a Hole just about anywheres: in the head, in the wallet (which means he burns his money), in the pocket (which means he don’t got no money to burn but would like some), in the pants, in the guts, in the stomach, in the heart. You offer a person with a Hole in the head some knowledge and they gonna be in yr pocket cause you done gived him the opportunity to taste what he craves, but if a person’s got a Hole in they heart and you offer them knowledge, you won’t be able to sway them none. A Hole-in-the-heart person craves company and kindness, not no book.