Ricky Nelson – Louisiana Man (Guitar)
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Chords
Album - Bright Lights And Country Music -
on ACE Records in 1966
INTRO:
C#m D A D
#1.
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At first mom and papa called their little boy, Ned.They raised him on the banks of a riverbed.
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A houseboat tied to a big tall tree, a home for my mama and my papa and me.
D The clock strikes three papa jumps to his feet, A D already mama's cooking papa somethin' to eat. D At half past, papa he's a ready to go, A D he jumps in his pirogue headed down the bayou.
CHORUS:
G He's got fishin' lines strung across the Louisiana D G River..gotta catch a big fish for us to eat. G He's settin' his traps, catchin' anything he can. G Gotta make a livin', he's a Louisiana man. D G Gotta make a livin', he's a Louisiana man.
#2.
D Muskrat hides hangin' by the dozen, even got a A D little baby muskrat cousin. D Got 'em out dryin' in the hot, hot sun, tomorrow
Papa's gonna turn 'em into mon.
INTERLUDE:
D A D D A D
#3.
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They call mama Rita and my daddy Jack, my little baby brother on the floor, that's Mac.
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Red and Len are the family twins, big brother Ed's on the bayou fishin'.
#4.
D On the river floats papa's great big boat, that's A D how me and papa go into town. D It takes every bit of a night and day to even reach A D the place where the people stay.
#5.
G I can hardly wait tomorrow comes around, that's the D G day my Poppa takes the furs to town. G Papa promised me that I could go, he even let me see D G a cowboy show. G D I saw the cowboys and Indians for the first time, then. A D I told my Papa, got to go again. D Papa said, son, we got lines to run, we'll come back A D again cause there's work to be done.
INTERLUDE:
D A D D A D
CHORUS:
G He's got fishin' lines strung across the Louisiana D G River..gotta catch a big fish for us to eat. G He's settin' his traps, catchin' anything he can. G Gotta make a livin', he's a Louisiana man. D G Gotta make a livin', he's a Louisiana man.
OUTRO:
G Gotta make a livin', he's a Louisiana man. D G Gotta make a livin', he's a Louisiana man.
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A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.