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The Legend Of Wooley Swamp lyrics
Well if you ever go back into Wooley Swamp well you better not go at night There s things out there in the middle of them woods that d make a strong man cry with fright Things that crawl and things that fly and things that creep around on the ground And they say the ghost of Lucius Clay gets up and it walks around
(chorus) But I couldn t believe it I just had to find out for myself And I couldn t conceive it cause I never would listen to nobody else No I couldn t believe it I just had to find out for myself Some things in this world you just can t explain
(spoken) The old man lived in the Wooley Swamp way back in the booger woods He never did do a lot of harm in the world but he never did do no good People didn t think too much of him they all thought he acted funny The old man didn t care about people anyway all he cared about was his money. He d stuff it all down in Mason jars and bury it all around And on certain nights when the moon was right he d dig it up out of the ground He d pour it all out on the floor of his shack and run his fingers through it Yeah ol Lucius Clay was a greedy old man and that s all there ever was to it
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(spoken) The Crayver boys was white trash they lived over on Carver s Creek They were mean as a snake and sneaky as a cat and belligerent when they d speak. One night the oldest brother said "Ya ll meet in the Wooly Swamp later we ll take old Lucius s money and we ll feed him to the alligators" They found the old man out in the back with a shovel in his hand And thirteen rusty Mason jars he just dug up out of the sand And they all went crazy and they beat the old man then they picked him up off the ground Then they threw him in the swamp and they stood there and laughed as the black water sucked him down Then they turned around and went back to the shack and they picked up the money and ran. But hadn t gone nowheres when they realized they were running in quicksand. And they struggled and screamed but they couldn t get away And just before they went under they could hear that old man laughing in a voice that was loud as thunder
That s been fifty years ago an if you go by there yet There s a spot in the yard in back of that shack where the ground is always wet And on certain nights if the moon is right and you re down by the dark wood path You can hear three young men screaming and you can hear one old man laugh
(sung) Well if you ever go back into Wooley Swamp well you better not go at night There s things out there in the middle of them woods that d make a strong man cry with fright Things that crawl and things that fly and things that creep around on the ground And they say the ghost of Lucius Clay gets up and it walks around
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(spoken) Some things in this world you just can t explain song lyrics
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