Artist/Band: Williams Hank Jr

Lyrics for Song: Amos Moses

Lyrics for Album: I'm One of You

Spoken: Here come Amos 



Now Amos Moses was a Cajun 

He lived by hisself in the swamp 

He hunted alligator for a livin' 

He just knock them in the head with a stomp 



Louisiana law gonna getcha Amos 

It ain't legal huntin' alligator 

Down in the swamp now 

Well everyone blamed 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 ‘round his neck and chuck ‘im in the swamp 

Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou 

About 45 minutes southeast of Tibado Louisiana 

Lived a man named Doc Milsap 

And his pretty white Hannah 

They raised up a son who could 

Eat his weight in groceries 

Named him after a man of cloth 

Called him Amos Moses 



Now the folks around South Louisiana 

Said Amos was a hell of a man 

He could trap the biggest meanest alligator 

And just use one hand 

That's all he got left 

Cause an alligator bit it 

Left arm gone, clean up to the elbow 



Well the sheriff got wind that Amos 

Was in the swamp trappin' alligator skin 

So he snuck in the swamp 

Gonna get the boy 

But he never come out again 



Whoa! I wonder where the 

Louisiana sheriff went to? 

Now you can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou 

About 45 minutes southeast of Tibado Louisiana 

Lived a cat named Doc Milsap 

And his pretty white Hannah 

They raised up a son who could 

Eat his weight in groceries 

Named him after a man of cloth 

Called him Amos Moses 



Sit down on ‘em Amos 



About 45 minutes southeast of Tibado Louisiana 

Lived a cat named Doc Milsap 

And his pretty white Hannah 

They raised up a son who could 

Eat his weight in groceries 

Named him after a man of cloth 

Called him Amos Moses 



His name is Amos Moses 

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