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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

TUNESMITH TUESDAY - "Amos Moses" by Jerry Reed




"Amos Moses"

Yeah here comes Amos
Now Amos Moses was a Cajun 
he lived by himself in the swamp
He hunted alligators for a livin' 
He’d just knock 'em in the head with a stump
The Louisiana law's gonna get ya Amos
It ain't legal huntin' alligators 
Down in the swamp boy
Now everybody blames his old man 
For makin' him mean as a snake
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy 
Would use him for alligator bait
Tie a rope around his waist 
And throw him in the swamp ha ha ha
Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou

About forty-five minutes 
Southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana
Lived a man called Doc Millsap 
And his pretty wife Hannah
Well they raised up a son 
That could eat up his weight in groc'ries
Named him after the man of the cloth 
Called him Amos Moses
Yeah ha ha

Now all the folks around south Louisiana 
Said Amos was a hell of a man
He could trap the biggest the meanest alligator 
And just use one hand
That's all he got left 
Cause the alligator bit him ha ha ha
Left arm gone clean up to the elbow
Well the sheriff got wind that Amos 
Was in the swamp trappin' alligator skins
So he snuck in the swamp gonna get the boy 
But he never come out again
Well I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to
Well you can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou

About forty-five minutes 
Southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana
Lived a man called Doc Millsap 
And his pretty wife Hannah
Well they raised up a son 
That could eat up his weight in groc'ries
Named him after the man of the cloth 
Called him Amos Moses

Sit down on 'em Amos make it count son
About forty-five minutes 
Southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana
Lived a man called Doc Millsap 
And his pretty wife Hannah

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