Amos Moses Lyrics

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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