Louisiana Man chords by Rusty & Doug Kershaw, Wiley Barkdull

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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At  (C major) birth, Mom and Papa
call their little boy Ned
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Place him on the bench of a  (G major) ri verbed  (C major) 
A house boatin' tied to a big tall tree
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A home for my Papa and my  (G major) Mama and me
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 (C major) The clock strikes three,
Papa jumps to his feet
Already Mama's cookin',
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Papa's  (G major) somethin' to eat  (C major) 
At half -past papa, he's ready to go
He jumps in his bureau,
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headin'  (G major) down the bayou
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 (C major) He's got this  (F major) in line,
strong across the Louisiana rivers
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Gotta catch a  (C major) big fish for us two
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He  (F major) descends through traps
in the swamps,
catchin' anything he can
Gotta make a livin',
he's a Louisiana man
Gotta make a livin',
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he's a  (C major) Louisiana man  (F major) 
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Muskrat  (C major) hides hangin' by the dozen
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Even got a lady makin'  (G major) Muskrat's  (C major) cousin
Got all my pride in the hot, hot sun
Tomorrow Papa's gonna turn
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them  (G major) into mun  (C major)  (G major)  (C major) 
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 (C major) Well, they call Mama Rita
and my Daddy Jack
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Her little baby brother on the  (G major) floor,
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that's Mike  (C major) Brent and Lynn
are the family twins
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Big Brother Ed's on the  (G major) bayou fish (C major) in'
On the river floor,
Papa's great big boat
That's how my Papa goes into town
Takes every bit of a night and a day
To even reach the place
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where the  (G major) people  (C major) stay
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I  (F major) can hardly wait until tomorrow
comes around
That's the day my Papa
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takes the first  (C major) to  (F major) town
Papa promised me that I could go
He would let me see a cowboy
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So I seen the  (C major) cowboys and Indians
for the first time
then I told my papa I gotta go again
Papa said, son, we got lines to run
We'll come back again,
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first there's  (G major) work to  (C major) be done
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He's got fish (F major) ing lines
strung across the Louisiana river
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He's gotta catch a big fish for  (C major) us to  (F major) eat
He's settin' traps in the swamp,
sketchin' anything he can
Gotta make a living he's