The Ballad Of Gator Mcklusky Lyrics

The Ballad Of Gator Mcklusky

The Ballad Of Gator Mcklusky

 Jerry Reed

 

 He was raised in the swamp

 In the back of a slough

 He grew up eatin' rattlesnake meat

 And drinkin' homemade brew

 Now folks here about call him Gator

 And everybody knows him well

 Meanest man ever to hit the swamp

 Folks swear he come straight outta hell

 

 Well Gator McKlusky sittin' on a stump

 Hammer pulled back on a twelve gauge pump

 Watchin' that swamp lookin' out for the law

 While he make the best corn liquor you ever saw

 

 (Rock gut whiskey...)

 

 While he's makin' that mash he watches and he looks

 Old Gator he knows that swamp like a book

 Somethin' out there movin' Gator whaddaya see

 Ain't nothin' but the snakes and the gators and me

 

 Everything's okey-dokey in the Okefenokee

 That sheriff ain't snoopin' around

 So cook that moonshine down

 'Til it's good and clear

 Everything's okey-dokey in the Okefenokee

 That sheriff he'd soon mess around with the devil

 Than to get his self long messin' around in here

 

 One day he was cookin' some mash he was almost done

 When they spotted the law and they had to run

 So he headed for the swamp and they followed him in

 But the law might as well been a-chasin' the wind

 

 (Look out for that snake, sheriff...)

 

 Well they chased on back through the muck and the slime

 To the back of that swamp where the sun don't shine

 But the law won't never catch Gator my friend

 'Cause he knows that swamp like the back of his hand

 

 Watch out boys old smokey's in the Okefenokee

 The sheriff's out there snoopin' around

 So shut that business down

 And let's disappear

 Look out boys old smokey's in the Okefenokee

 But that sheriff he's really gonna catch the devil

 If he keeps on snoopin' around in here

 

 (Gator's in the swamp, sheriff...)

 (Go get him...)

 (If you can...)

 

 (Careful, sheriff...)

 (Don't let that gator bite you on your gonads...)