Amos Moses

Amos Moses by Jerry Reed

chord diagrams:

The strumming pattern is kinda hard to get, but listen to the song and play around

and you'll have it in no time.

Yeah! Here comes Amos! (that's during the final bit of the intro)

Now Amos moses was a cajon

He lived by himself in the swamp.

He hunted alligator for a livin'

Just knock 'em in the head with a stump.

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The Lousisana law gonna get you, Amos!(during the riff)

It ain't legal huntin' alligator down in the swamp, boy!

Well, everybody blamed his old man

For makin' him mean as a snake.

When Amos Moses was a boy,

His Daddy would use his for alligator bait.

Tie a rope around his waist and throw him in the swamp!

Aliigator bait in the Lousisana bayou

About forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Lousisiana

Lived a man called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Anna.

Well, they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries.

(Haven't quite gotten this riff yet, but will post as soon as I get it)

Named him after a man of the cloth,

Called him Amos Moses.

Now all the folks around south Louisiana

Said Amos was a hell of a man.

He could trap the biggest,

The meanest alligator,

And just use one hand.

That's all he got left cuz the alligator bit it!

Left arm gone clean up to the elbow!

Well, the Sheriff got wind that Amos

Was in the swamp tracking alligator skin.

So he snuck in the swamp, gonna get the boy.

But he never come out again.

Well, I wonder where the Louisiana Sheriff went to?

You can sure get lost in the Louisiana Bayou!

About forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Lousisiana

Lived a cat called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Anna.

Well, they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries.

(once again there's the part I don't know yet. Just using the original

doesn't sound too bad though, and it does fade back

into it so you should be good)

Named him after a man of the cloth,

Called him Amos Moses.

Set out on 'em Amos.

Make it count, Son!

About forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Lousisiana...

Lived a cat called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Anna.