Ol' Papa Joe chords by Swampwater
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Old Papa Joe,
livin' on the bayou,
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comin' after me with a gun
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and a dog.
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Everybody say that he's gonna kill me
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and let his big dog take a bite of me.
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I ran so fast that I lost my breath
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My legs couldn't take another step
And ol' Papa Joe's still
a -comin' after me
His big ol' dog won't survive to meet
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Me, oh my, oh what can I do?
I couldn't swim a leak
and my pee -rook shot clear
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Water rushed in and I got wet
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I'll never get out of this mess I'm in
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I'll never get out of this mess
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I'm in
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Joe caught me at the Bayou's edge,
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his big old dog took a bite from my leg
I pleaded and I begged him for my life,
I said I'd take his daughter for my wife
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And now Joe is my papa -in -law,
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he calls me son and I call him pa
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And we go fishing at the
Bayou's edge,
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where my pirogue sunk
and his dog bit my leg
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Me, oh my, oh what can I do?
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Swim a lake and my pimoche
I'd live through
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Water rustin' and I'd die with it
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Lost my freedom at the Bayou, say
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Lost my freedom at the Bayou, say
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Lost my freedom at the Bayou, say
Lost my freedom at the Bayou,
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say
Outro 1
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Ol' Papa Joe
Swampwater
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