Louisiana Man chords by 
Buck Owens 
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Key: Eb major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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[ Don Rich]
At first mom and papa called
their little boy Ned
They raised him on the
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banks of the river bed
A houseboat tied to a big tall tree a home
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for my mama and my papa and me
The clock strikes three papa
jumps to his feet
Already mama's cookin'
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papa somethin' to eat
At half past papa he's ready to go he hops
in his piro headed down the bayou
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They got fishin' lines strung
across the Louisiana River
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Gonna catch a big fish for us to eat
They said that crops in the swamp
catchin' everythin' he can
Gonna make a livin' he's a Louisiana man gonna
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make a livin' he's a Louisiana man
Muskart hides a hangin' by the dozen even
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got a lady make a mus kart's cousin
Pile of hide dryin' in the hot hot sun tomorrow
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papa's gonna turn them into mon
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[ fiddle
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They call my mama Rita
and my daddy Jack
A little baby brother on the
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floor that's Mac
Rynn and Lynn are the family twins big
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brother Ed's on the bayou fishin'
On the river float papa's great big boat
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that's how my papa goes in to town
Makes every bit of the night and day then ever
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reach the place where the people stay
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I can hardly wait until
tomorrow comes around
That's the day my papa
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takes his fures to town
Papa promised me that I could go
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even gonna see a cowboy show
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I see the cowboys and Indians for the first
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time then told my pappy gotta go again
Papa said son we got the lines to run
We'll come back again that
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there's work to be done
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And they got fishin' lines...
Outro 1
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