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Amos Moses by Jerry Reed
chord diagrams:
A - 0 0 2 2 2 0
B - x 2 4 4 4 2
D7 - x 0 0 2 1 2
E7 - 0 2 0 1 0 0
A7 - x 0 2 2 2 3
The strumming pattern is kinda hard to get, but listen to the song and play around
and you'll have it in no time.
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Yeah! Here comes Amos! (that's during the final bit of the intro)
A
Now Amos moses was a cajon
B
He lived by himself in the swamp.
D7
He hunted alligator for a livin'
D7
Just knock 'em in the head with a stump.
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The Lousisana law gonna get you, Amos!(during the riff)
It ain't legal huntin' alligator down in the swamp, boy!
A
Well, everybody blamed his old man
B D7
For makin' him mean as a snake.
D7
When Amos Moses was a boy,
D7
His Daddy would use his for alligator bait.
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Tie a rope around his waist and throw him in the swamp!
Aliigator bait in the Lousisana bayou
E7 D7 A7
About forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Lousisiana
E7 D7 A7
Lived a man called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Anna.
E7 C D7
Well, they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries.
(Haven't quite gotten this riff yet, but will post as soon as I get it)
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Named him after a man of the cloth,
Called him Amos Moses.
A
Now all the folks around south Louisiana
B
Said Amos was a hell of a man.
D7
He could trap the biggest,
D7
The meanest alligator,
D7
And just use one hand.
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That's all he got left cuz the alligator bit it!
Left arm gone clean up to the elbow!
A
Well, the Sheriff got wind that Amos
B
Was in the swamp tracking alligator skin.
D7
So he snuck in the swamp, gonna get the boy.
But he never come out again.
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Well, I wonder where the Louisiana Sheriff went to?
You can sure get lost in the Louisiana Bayou!
E7 D7 A7
About forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Lousisiana
E7 D7 A7
Lived a cat called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Anna.
E7 C D7
Well, they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries.
(once again there's the part I don't know yet. Just using the original
doesn't sound too bad though, and it does fade back
into it so you should be good)
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Named him after a man of the cloth,
Called him Amos Moses.
Set out on 'em Amos.
Make it count, Son!
E7 D7 A7
About forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Lousisiana...
E7 D7 A7
Lived a cat called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Anna.
