Conway Twitty – Amos Moses (Guitar)

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As recorded by Conway Twitty (From the 1971 Album HOW MUCH MORE CAN SHE STAND) [Intro] D7 A7 [Verse 1]
A7
Now Amos Moses was a Cajun

   B7                      D7
He lived by himself in the swamp

D7
He haunted alligators for a livin'

D7
He just knock 'em in the head with a stump
[Verse 2]
    A7
The Louisiana law's gonna get ya Amos

A7
It ain't legal huntin' alligators down in the swamp boy

A7
Now everybody blames his old man

    B7                   D7
For makin' him mean as a snake

D7
When Amos Moses was a boy

D7
His daddy would use him for alligator bait

      A7
Tie a rope around his waist throw him in the swamp

A7
Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou
[Chorus]
      E7                              D7           A7
About forty five minutes southeast of Tippidoe Louisiana

       E7                 D7                      A7
Live a man called Doc Millsap and his pretty wife Hannah

           E7
Well, they raised up a son

           C7                   D7
That could eat up his weight in groc'ries

D7
Named him aftеr the man of the cloth

                     A7
Called him Amos Mosеs
[Verse 3]
A7
Now folks around south Louisiana

     B7                   D7
Said Amos was a hell of a man

D7
He could trap the biggest the meanest alligator

D7
And just use only one hand

       A7
That's all he got left 'cause the alligator bit him

A7
Left arm gone clean up to the elbow
[Verse 4]
A7
Well, the sheriff got wind

                     B7                       D7
That Amos was in the swamp trappin' alligator skins

D7
So he snook in the swamp

D7
Gonna get the boy but he never come out again

        A7
Well, I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to

A7
Well, you can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou
[Chorus]
      E7                      D7                   A7
About forty five minutes southeast of Tippidoe Louisiana

       E7                 D7                      A7
Live a man called Doc Millsap and his pretty wife Hannah

           E7
Well, they raised up a son

           C7                   D7
That could eat up his weight in groc'ries

D7
Named him aftеr the man of the cloth

                     A7
Called him Amos Mosеs

      E7                      D7                   A7
About forty five minutes southeast of Tippidoe Louisiana

       E7                 D7                      A7
Live a man called Doc Millsap and his pretty wife Hannah

           E7
Well, they raised up a son

           C7                   D7
That could eat up his weight in groc'ries

D7
Named him aftеr the man of the cloth

                     A7
Called him Amos Mosеs
[Outro] A7