Swamp Witch chords by Jim Stafford

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Verse 1
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Blackwater haddyliff
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back in the swamp
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Where strange green reptiles crawl
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Snakes hang thick from the cypress trees
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Like sausage on  a smokehouse wall
Where the swamp is alive
with a thousand eyes
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And all of them watching you
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Stay off the track of haddyshack
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In the back of the black bayou
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Way up the road from Hatties Shack
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Lies a sleepy little Okeechobee town
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Talk of swamp witch Hattie
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Lock you in when the sun go down
Rumors of what she done
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Rumors of what she'd do
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Kept folks off the track of Hattie Shack
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in the back of the black bayou
One day brought the rain,
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the rain stayed on
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and the swamp water overflowed
Mosquitoes and the fever
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grabbed the town like a fist,
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Doc Jackson was the first to go
Some said the plague was brought by Hattie,
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there was talk of a hangin' too
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But the talk got shackled by the howls
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and the cackles from the bowels
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of the Black Bayou
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Early one morn' between dark and dawn,
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when shadows fill the sky
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There came an unseen caller
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on a town where hope run dry
In the square there was found
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a big black round, fat,
full of gurgling brood
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Whispering sounds as the
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folks gathered round,
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it came from the black bayou
There ain't much pride
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when you're trapped
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inside a slowly sinking ship
Scooped up the liquid deep and green
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And the whole town took a sip
Fever went away and the very next day
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The skies again were blue
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Let's thank old Hattie
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for saving our town
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We'll fetch her from the Black Bayou Party
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at the end of the town's best man
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Headed for Hattie's shack
Said swamp witch magic
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was useful and good
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And they're gonna bring Hattie back
Never found Hattie
and they never found the shack
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And they never made a trip back in
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Cause a parchment note they
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found tacked to a stump
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Said don't come looking
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again
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Oh, oh, oh,
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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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