Amos Moses - Jerry Reed

When I was a kid my dad played this record album a lot and we sang it together. Kids like songs that tell a story. I may have been the only 10 year old girl in the state to have the lyrics to Amos Moses Memorized.

You can hear the song here:   

Amos Moses by Jerry Reed:  Well Amos Moses was a Cajun, He lived by himself in the swamp. He hunted alligators for a livin, He just knocked ‘em in the head with a stump. The Louisiana law gonna get ya mos. It ain’t legal hunting alligators down in the swamp, boy. Well everybody blames his old man, For makin’ him mean as a snake, When Amos Moses was a boy His daddy would use him for alligator bait. Tie a rope around his waist, and throw him in the swamp, Alligator bit him in a Louisiana bayou. About 45 minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Louisiana Lived a man named Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Hanna they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries, Named him after a man of the cloth, Called him Amos Moses. Well, the folks around south Louisiana Said Amos was a hell of a man He could trap the biggest, the meanest alligator And just use one hand That’s all he’s got left cause an alligator bit him Left arm gone clean up to the elbow Well the sheriff caught wind that Amos Was in the swamp huntin’ alligator skins So he snuck in the swamp, gonna getcha boy, But he never come out again. Well, I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to? You can sure get lost in a Louisiana bayou! About 45 minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Louisiana Lived a man named Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Hanna They raised a son who could eat up his weight in groceries, Named him after a man of the cloth, Called him Amos Moses