Key: D major
Verse 1
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Mama, Papa told me,
son, you gotta go
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Gotta get out on your own, you know
get a stretch of land
Raise a little baby, butta be a big, big man
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Pack my clothes in the old payroll
Move down the bayou,
just around the bend
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Built me a shack about
a forty foot long
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Found me a wife and a home sweet home
Up on the bayou at the break of dawn
Catch a little bitty fish and
I cook a cubby on
learned how to play
I don't know the note
Just know the way that the
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Cajun music go
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and a big motorboat just to buy me gold
The man at the wheel turned him around,
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he done heard that Cajun sound
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Said, son, I'd like to have a little talk
Buy you a mansion and a big limousine
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Give you plenty of spendin' green
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He took me to town to the TV show
Played my piano, the gate turned gray
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just to hear me play
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I got my wife and I got my land
Playin' my piano every day
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Called my mama, papa told me,
Son, you gotta go
get a stretch of land
Raise a little baby boy to be a big,
big man
Little baby boy to be a big, big man
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Raise a little baby boy to be a big, big man
you
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD G A
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