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Amos Moses by Jerry Reed - Guitar Chords

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Version 1
            [Intro Chords]
| A7 |   |   | A7 | 

[Verse 1]
A7
Now Amos Moses was a Cajun. 
A7
He lived by himself in the swamp. 
   D7
He hunted alligator for a living. 
D7
He'd just knock them in the head with a stump. (Stop) 
    A7  
The Louisiana law gonna get you Amos. 
A7
It ain't legal hunting alligator down in the swamp boy. 

[Verse 2]

A7 Now everyone blamed his old man 

for A7 making him mean as a snake.

When D7 Amos Moses was a boy 

His daddy would use him for alligator bait. (Stop)

Tie a A7 rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp. 

A7 Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou. 

[Chorus]
      D                           D7        A7
About forty-five minutes south of Thibodaux Louisiana,
A7      D                    D7                        A7
Lived a man called Dr. Mills South and his pretty wife Hannah.
     D7                        C                 D7
They raised up a son who could eat his weight in groceries.
D7                                                          A7
(Named him after a man of the cloth called him Amos Moses) 
   
[Verse 3]
A7     
Now the folks around south Louisiana, 
A7
said Amos was a hell of a man. 
A7       D7
He could trap the biggest meanest alligator 
D7
and he'd just use one hand. (Stop) 
       A7
That's all he got left cause an alligator bit it. 
A7
Left arm gone clear up to the elbow. 

[Verse 4]
A7
Well the sheriff caught wind that Amos 
A7
was up in the swamp trading skins. 
A7    D7
So he snuck in the swamp gonna get the boy,
D7             
but he never came out again. (Stop) 
A7
I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to. 
A7
Well you can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou. 

[Chorus]
      D                           D7        A7
About forty-five minutes south of Thibodaux Louisiana,
A7      D                    D7                        A7
Lived a man called Dr. Mills South and his pretty wife Hannah.
     D7                        C                 D7
They raised up a son who could eat his weight in groceries.
D7                                                          A7
(Named him after a man of the cloth called him Amos Moses) 
   
[Chorus]
      D                           D7       A7
About forty-five minutes south of Thibodaux Louisiana,
A7      D                    D7                        A7
Lived a man called Dr. Mills South and his pretty wife Hannah.
     D7                        C                 D7
They raised up a son who could eat his weight in groceries.
D7                                                          A7
(Named him after a man of the cloth called him Amos Moses)
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