WOOLEY SWAMP SONG FULL

(C) And they all went crazy And they beat the old man, And they picked him up off of the ground.(Dm) Threw him in the swamp And stood there and laughed As the black water sucked him down. (C) One night the oldest brother said, 'Y'all meet me at the Wooley Swamp later (Dm) We'll take old Lucius's money, and we'll feed him to the alligators.' (C) They found the old man out in the back With a shovel in his hand,(Dm) Thirteen rusty mason jars was just dug up out of the sand. (Dm) They were mean as a snake, And sneaky as a cat, And belligerent when they'd speak. (Dm) Yeah, Lucius Clay was a greedy old man, And that's all that there was to it.(C) (CHORUS) Cable boys was white trash, They lived over on Carver's Creek. They all thought he acted funny (Dm) The old man didn't care about people anyway, All he cared about was his money.(C) He'd stuff it all down in mason jars, And he'd bury it all around (Dm) And on certain nights, If the moon was right, He'd dig it up out of the ground.(C) He'd pour it all out on the floor of his shack, And run his fingers through it. (Dm) He never did do a lot of harm in the world,But he never did do no good (C) People didn't think too much of him. The old man lived in the Wooley Swamp way back in Booger Woods.

Spoken verse Alternate Dm for first line, and C for the 2nd. I just had to find out for myself There's somethings in this world you just can't explain.

And I couldn't conceive it 'Cause I never would have listened to nobody else. And they say the ghost of Lucius Clay gets up and he walks around. Things that crawl and things that fly And things that creep around on the ground. There's things out there in the middle of them woods G (listen for the multiple C's) C That make a strong man die from fright. Riff 1 C|-| B|-6-| G|-7-5-7-5-7-7-5-| D|-5-5-| A|-8-8-5-| E|-| (Prechorus) Well, if you ever go back into Wooley Swamp, G (do A quick change) C D Well, you better not go at night. Anyway, to the Corrections can be sent via PM to me. There some slide leads during the spoken verse that i dont care to tab out. I just love the whole fullness the song, a great recording, and charlie daniels voice is perfect in this song.

WOOLEY SWAMP SONG FULL

To this day, behind Clay's shack a piece of ground is perpetually wet, and on a full moon 'you can hear three young men screamin'' while 'you can hear one old man laugh'.This is by far my most favorite southern rock song ever.

But as the Cable boys attempted to get away, they found themselves mired in quicksand, and ultimately drowned, but before doing so the voice of Clay laughed 'loud as thunder'. He then tells of the legend: 50 years prior, Lucius Clay (a reclusive miser who buried his money in Mason jars around his property, and who during full moons would dig it up and run his fingers through it) was robbed and murdered by the Cable boys (three 'white trash' brothers). The song is told in first person narrative of one who heard a legend but had to verify it for himself, proving it to be true and that 'some things in this world, you just can't explain'. However, it has become a popular song for the band at its concerts. Released in 1980 from their Full Moon album, the song itself did not do well on the country charts (reaching only #80) but surprisingly did better on the pop charts (reaching #31). The Legend of Wooley Swamp is a country song written and performed by The Charlie Daniels Band.

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