Amos Moses (Live at the Big T Roadhouse)

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Now Amos Moses was a Cajun
He lived by his self in the swamp
He hunted alligator for living, yeah
He'd just knock them in the head with a stump, uh

The Louisiana law gon' get you Amos
It ain't legal hunting alligator down in the swamp boy
Now everybody blamed his old man
For making him mean as a snake
Used to take him out to the river
He used used him for alligator bait

Tie a rope around his waist
And throw him in the swamp
Alligator man in the Louisiana bayou

About forty-five minutes southeast of Tippitoe Louisiana
Lived a man called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Hannah
Well, they raised up a son that could eat up his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth
Called him Amos Moses, yeah

Now everybody look, oh Amos
Thought he was a hell of a man
He'd hunt him the biggest and the meanest alligator
Yes you wanted him

That's all he got left cause an alligator bit it
Left arm gone clean up to the elbow
Well the sheriff caught wind that Amos
Was in the swamp trappin' alligator skins
Thought I go out there and sneak up on 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 Tippitoe Louisiana
Lived a cat called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Hannah
Well, they raised up a son that could eat up his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth
Called him Amos Moses, yeah

The Louisiana law gon' get you Amos
It ain't legal hunting alligator down in the swamp boy
I wonder why the Louisiana sherrif got kicked
Surely got lost in the Louisiana bayou

Amen