The Legend of Wooley Swamp chords by 
Charlie Daniels And The Charlie Daniels Band 
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Key: D major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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If you ever go back into
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Wooly Swamp son you better not go at night
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There's things out there
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in the middle of them woods
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That'd make a strong man
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die from fright
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There's things that crawl
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and things that fly
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And things that creep around
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on the ground
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And they say the ghost of Lucias Clay
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gets up and it walks around
Verse 2
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But I couldn't believe it,
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I just had to find out for myself
And I couldn't conceive it,
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I never would listen to nobody else
No I couldn't believe it,
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I just had to find out for myself
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That there's some things in this world
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you just can't explain
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The
Verse 3
old man lived in the Wooly Swamp
way back in the gurgling woods
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And he never did do a lot of
harm in the world
But he never did do no good
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People didn't think too much of him
They all thought he acted funny
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The old man didn't care
about people anyway
All he cared about was his money
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He'd stuff it all down in Mason
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jars and bury it all around
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But on certain nights
if the moon was right
He'd dig it up out of the ground
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He'd pour it all out on the
floor of his shack
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And run his fingers through it
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Old Lucias Clay was a greedy old man
And that's all there ever was to it
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Verse 4
But I couldn't believe it,
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I just had to find out for myself
And I couldn't conceive it,
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I never would listen to nobody else
No I couldn't believe it,
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I just had to find out for myself
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That there's some things in
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this world you just can't explain
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Verse 5
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The Crayton boys were white trash
they lived over on Carvers Creek
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They were mean as a snake and
sneaky as a cat
And belligerent when they'd speak
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One night the oldest brother said ya'll
meet in the Wooly Swamp later
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We'll get old Lucias' money and
we'll pitch him to the alligators
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They found the old man out in the back
with a shovel in his hand
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And thirteen rusty Mason jars he just
dug up out of the sand
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And they all went crazy and
they beat the old man
Then they picked him up off
the ground
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Then they threw him in the swamp and
they stood there and laughed
Till the black water sucked him down
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Then they turned around
and went back to the shack
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And they picked up the money
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and ran
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But they hadn't gone nowheres
when they realized
They were running in
quicksand
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And they struggled and screamed
but they couldn't get away
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Then just before they went under
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They could hear that old man laughing
In a voice that was loud
as thunder
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Now that's been fifty years ago an' if
you go back by there again
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There's a spot in the yard in
back of that shack
Where the ground is always wet
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And on certain nights if the moon is right
And you're down by the
dark footpath
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You can hear three young
men screaming
And you can hear that old man laugh
Verse 6
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If you ever go back into Wooly Swamp
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son you better not go at night
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There's things out there
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in the middle of them woods
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That'd make a strong man
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die from fright
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There's things that crawl
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and things that fly
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And things that creep around
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on the ground
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And they say the ghost of Lucias Clay
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gets up and it walks around
Verse 7
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But I couldn't believe it,
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I just had to find out for myself
And I couldn't conceive it,
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I never would listen to nobody else
No I couldn't believe it,
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I just had to find out for myself
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That there's some things in this world
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you just can't explain
Outro 1
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