Louisana Man

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