Amos Moses lyrics

Artist  : Jerry Reed 
Song : Amos Moses
 


Amos Moses
Jerry Reed
(Reed)
Super Hits
Of The 70's, Vol. 3


Yeah here comes
Amos
Now Amos Moses was a Cajun
He lived by
himself in the swamp
He hunted alligator for a
living
He'd just knock them in the head with a
stump
The Louisiana law gonna get you
Amos
It ain't legal hunting alligator down in
the swamp boy

Now everyone blamed his old
man
For making him mean as a snake
When
Amos Moses was a boy
His daddy would use him
for alligator bait
Tie a rope around his neck
and throw him in the swamp
Alligator man in
the Louisiana bayou
About forty-five minutes
south of Tippitoe Louisiana
Lived a man called
Dr. Mills South and his pretty wife
Hannah
They raised up a son who could eat his
weight in groceries
Named him after a man of
the cloth
Called him Amos Moses

Now the
folks around south Louisiana
Said Amos was a
hell of a man
He could trap the biggest
meanest alligator
And he'd just use one
hand
That's all he got left cause an alligator
bit it
Left arm gone clear up to the
elbow

Well the sheriff caught wind that
Amos was up in the swamp
Trading alligator
skins
So he snuck in the swamp gonna get the
boy
But he never came out
Well I wonder
where the Louisiana sheriff went to
Well you
can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou
About
forty-five minutes south of Tippitoe
Louisiana
Lived a cat named Dr. Mills South
and his pretty wife Hannah
They raised up a
son who could eat his weight in
groceries
Named him after a man of the
cloth
Called him Amos Moses

I know
son
Make it count son
About forty-five
minutes south of Tippitoe
Louisiana...

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