Jim Stafford My Girl Bill Lyrics

My Girl Bill Lyrics

Black water Hattie lived back in the swamp
Where the strange green reptiles
crawl
Snakes hang thick from the cypress trees
Like sausage on a
smokehouse wall
Where the swamp is alive with a thousand eyes
An' all of
them watching you
Stay off the track to Hattie's Shack in the back of the
Black Bayou

Way up the road from Hattie's Shack
Lies a sleepy little
Okeechobee town
Talk of swamp witch Hattie lock you in when the sun go
down
Rumours of what she'd done, rumours of what she'd do
Kept folks off
the track of hattie's shack
In the back of the Black Bayou

One day
brought the rain and the rain stayed on
And the swamp water
overflowed
'skeeters and the fever grabbed the town like a fist
Doctor
Jackson was the first to go
Some say the plague wasa brought by
Hattie
There was talk of a hang'n too 
But the talk got shackled by the
howls and the cackles
From the bowels of the Black bayou

Early one
morn 'tween dark and dawn when shadows filled the sky
There came an unseen
caller on a town where road run dry
You'd swear there was found a big black
round 
Vat full of gurgling brew

Whispering sounds as the folk
gathered round
"It came from the Black Bayou"
There ain't much
pride when you're trapped inside
A slowly sink'n ship
Scooped up the
liquid deep and green
And the whole town took a sip
Fever went away and
the very next day the skies again were blue
Let's thank old hattie for sav'n
our town
We'll fetch her from the Black Bayou

Party of ten of the
town's best men headed for Hattie's Shack
Said Swamp Witch magic was useful
and good
And they're gonna bring hattie back
Never found Hattie and they
never found the shack
Never made the trip back in
There was a parchment
note they found tacked to a stump 
Said don't come look'n again.