My Friend Fred - Sammy Kershaw

He used to handle snakes in Church

Perfect hair and a starched white shirt

Now he’s got a hold of something

He can’t drop like a copperhead

There’s a monster living inside

My friend Fred

He’s hanging out in trailers with junk out in the yard

Running with people that don’t know how to park

Don’t let him talk you into

Buying Sudafed

There’s a monster living inside

My friend Fred

I know somewhere in there is a brother

A brother as gentle as a lamb

But the last time that we saw each other

He was nowhere to be found

He’s shaking and baking out on Chisholm Road

But the poison that he’s making is eating at his soul

He’s lying and he’s stealing

Cause that demon must be fed

There’s a monster living inside

My friend Fred

I know somewhere in there is a brother

A brother as gentle as a lamb

But the last time that we saw each other

He was nowhere to be found

He’s lost his wife and baby a good job at TVA

Got a Mama that enables and an old man that he blames

He’s looking like an extra

On the walking dead

There’s a monster living inside

My friend Fred