Yeah! Here comes Amos!
Now Amos Moses was a Cajun.
He lived by hisself in the swamp.
He hunted alligator for a livin'.
He just knocked 'em in the head with a stump.
The Louisiana law gonna get cha, Amos!
It ain't legal huntin' alligator down in the swamp, boy.
Now everybody blames his old man,
For makin' him mean as a snake.
When Amos Moses was a boy
His daddy would use him for alligator bait.
Tie a rope around his waist, and throw him in the swamp.
Ha-ha! Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou!
[Chorus]
About 45 minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Louisiana
Lived a man called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife, Hanna.
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! Ha-ha!
Now, the folks around south Louisiana
Said Amos was a hell of a man-a.
He could trap the biggest, the meanest alligator
And just use one hand.
That's all he got left, 'cause da alligator bit it.
Left arm gone clean up to the elbow.
Well the sheriff got wind that Amos
Was in the swamp trappin' alligator skins.
So he snuck in the swamp, gonna get da boy,
But he never come out again.
Well, I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to?
You can sure get lost in da Louisiana bayou!
[Chorus]
About 45 minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Louisiana
Lived a man called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife, Hanna.
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.
Sit down on 'em, Amos!
Make it count, son!
[Chorus and Fade]
Now Amos Moses was a Cajun.
He lived by hisself in the swamp.
He hunted alligator for a livin'.
He just knocked 'em in the head with a stump.
The Louisiana law gonna get cha, Amos!
It ain't legal huntin' alligator down in the swamp, boy.
Now everybody blames his old man,
For makin' him mean as a snake.
When Amos Moses was a boy
His daddy would use him for alligator bait.
Tie a rope around his waist, and throw him in the swamp.
Ha-ha! Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou!
[Chorus]
About 45 minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Louisiana
Lived a man called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife, Hanna.
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! Ha-ha!
Now, the folks around south Louisiana
Said Amos was a hell of a man-a.
He could trap the biggest, the meanest alligator
And just use one hand.
That's all he got left, 'cause da alligator bit it.
Left arm gone clean up to the elbow.
Well the sheriff got wind that Amos
Was in the swamp trappin' alligator skins.
So he snuck in the swamp, gonna get da boy,
But he never come out again.
Well, I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to?
You can sure get lost in da Louisiana bayou!
[Chorus]
About 45 minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Louisiana
Lived a man called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife, Hanna.
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.
Sit down on 'em, Amos!
Make it count, son!
[Chorus and Fade]