Sax Shack Boogie - Original - Amos Milburn

Amos Moses was a Cajun

And lived by himself in the swamp

Hunting alligator for a living

Knock 'em on the head with a stump

The Louisiana law’s gonna get you, Amos

It ain’t legal hunting alligator down in the swamp, boy

Now everybody blamed his old man

For raising him mean as a snake

When Amos Moses was a boy

His Daddy would use him as alligator bait

Tie a rope around his waist

Throw him in the swamp

Alligator bait on the Louisiana bayou

Just about 45 minutes

Southeast of Tipidow, Louisiana

There lived a man called Duck Bill Sam

And his pretty wife Hannah

They raised up a son that could

Eat up his weight in groceries

Named him after a man of the cloth

They called him Amos Moses

Now folks in South Louisiana

Said Amos was a helluva man

He could trap the biggest, meanest alligator

He only had to use one hand

That’s all he got left

'cause the alligator bit him.

Ha ha!

Left arm gone clean up to the elbow

Just about 45 minutes

Southeast of Tipidow, Louisiana

There lived a man called Duck Bill Sam

And his pretty wife Hannah

They raised up a son that could

Eat up his weight in groceries

Named him after a man of the cloth

They called him Amos Moses

Here comes Amos

And you should have seen his pretty wife, Hannah

Well, the Sheriff got wind that

Amos was in the swamp hunting alligator skin

So he hid in the swamp, I’m gonna get you boy

He never did come out again

Well, I wonder where the Louisiana Sheriff went to?

Sure can get lost in the Louisiana bayou (3X)