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Alligator - The Charlie Daniels Band

Written by：C. Daniels/C. Hayward/J. Gavin/T. DiGregorio/T. Crain/James Stroud

Well ol' catahoula brown lived back in the swamp

With his dogs and a bunch of sons

One teenage daughter her name was sally sue

She was as pretty as a newborn fawn

And he didn't like sinners and he didn't like saints

And he didn't like anything

But as much as he disliked everybody else

He just hated ol' silas green

Sally sue come in on a saturday evening

As the sun was going down

She said papa if it's alright with you

Well I think I'm gonna go to town

He said daughter you get on back in the house

'Cause you ain't going no place

'Til you get them ribbons out of your hair

And wash the makeup off of your face

She said papa don't you be so hard on me

'Cause I just got a date

With this boy I met in sunday school

And we ain't gonna be out late

And then she walked on up to the rural route

And she caught herself a ride

But it wasn't no boy from sunday school

That was sittin' on the other side

It was silas green's youngest son bobby joe

Sittin' under that steering wheel

Alligator alligator swimming in the stream

Alligator alligator what makes you so mean

Alligator alligator wonder where you been

And did you swallow ol' catahoula brown

I ain't never seen him again

Catahoula got up on sunday morning

Made some coffee and had him a cup

Then he walked on out to the back of the house

To get his pretty daughter up

He went running in the room where the boys all slept

Hollered get up somethin' ain't right

And I'm worried to death 'cause your darling little sister

Didn't even come home last night

Johnny said papa don't be mad at me

I sure hate to tell you this

But I seen her in the town with bobby joe green

And I even seen her give him a kiss

And I tried to get her to come on back

But she told me to leave her alone

She said they were getting married before the sun come up

And she wasn't never coming home

Catahoula grabbed the boy by the nape of his neck

And slapped him upside the head

He said before I see her married to that trash

I'd rather see the little girl dead

And then he whistled up his dogs and he grabbed his gun

And he was full of evil and fight

He went a runnin' 'cross the woods hollering

Silas green and his bunch are gonna die tonight

Then a day went by and he didn't come back

And another went by then a week

And when the boys went looking all they found was his shotgun

Laying at the bottom of the creek

And then they found his boots and they found his cap

But they couldn't find anything else

Except a big bad alligator sitting on a log

Looking mighty proud of himself

It don't pay to hate somebody so bad you go

Stomping around in gator country

Alligator alligator swimming in the stream

Alligator alligator what makes you so mean

Alligator alligator wonder where you been

Well did you swallow ol' catahoula brown

I ain't never seen him again