verse 1
   
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          Now Amos Moses was a Cajun. He lived by himself in the swamp. He  
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hunted alligator for a living. He'd just knock them in the head with a stump.  
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The Louisiana law gonna get you Amos. It ain't legal hunting alligator down  

in the swamp boy.  

verse 2
   
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          Now everyone blamed his old man for making him mean as a snake. When 
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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 bait in the Louisiana bayou.  


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        About forty-five minutes south of Thibodeaux Louisiana, Lived a man called 
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Dr. Mills South and his pretty wife Hannah. They raised up a son who could eat his  
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weight in groceries. (Named him after a man of the cloth called him Amos Moses) 


verse 3   
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        Now the folks around south Louisiana, said Amos was a hell of a man.  
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He could trap the biggest meanest alligator and he'd just use one hand. That's  
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all he got left cause an alligator bit it. Left arm gone clear up to the elbow.  

verse 4   
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          Well the sheriff caught wind that Amos was up in the swamp trading  
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skins. So he snuck in the swamp gonna get the boy, but he never came out again. 
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 I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to. Well you can sure get lost in the  

Louisiana  

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        About forty-five minutes south of Thibodeaux Louisiana, Lived a man called 
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Dr. Mills South and his pretty wife Hannah. They raised up a son who could eat his  
          D7    
weight in groceries. (Named him after a man of the cloth called him Amos Moses) 

 
               E                           D7       A7                 E  
        About forty-five minutes south of Thibodeaux Louisiana, Lived a man called 
          D7                        A7           E7                        C  
Dr. Mills South and his pretty wife Hannah. They raised up a son who could eat his  
          D7    
weight in groceries. (Named him after a man of the cloth called him Amos Moses)