The Legend of Wooley Swamp Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D]
[Dm][D][G][D][G]

[Verse 1]
If you [D]ever go back into
[C]Wooly Swamp son you [G]better not go at [C]night
[D]There's things out there
in the middle [C]of them woods
That'd make a [G]strong man
die [C]from fright
There's [D]things that crawl
and [C]things that fly
And thing[G]s that creep around
on the [D]ground
And they say the ghost [C]of Lucias Clay
gets [G]up and it [D]walks around

[Verse 2]
But I couldn't [D]believe it,
[C]I just had to fin[D]d out for myself
And I couldn't conceive it,
[C]I never would lis[G]ten to [D]nobody else
No I couldn't believe it,
[C]I just had to fin[G]d out for[D] myself
That there's some [C]things in [G]this world
you just can't ex[Dm]plain[D]
[Dm]The

[Verse 3]
old man lived in the Wooly Swamp
way back in the gurgling woods
And [C]he never did do a lot of
harm in the world
But he never did do no good
[Dm]People didn't think too much of him
They all thought he acted funny
The old [C]man didn't care
about people anyway
All he cared about was his money
He'd [Dm]stuff it all down in Mason
jars and [D]bury it all around
[Dm]But on certa[C]in nights
if the moon was right
He'd dig it up out of the ground
He'd [Dm]pour it all out on the
floor of his shack
And run his fingers through [D]it
[C]Old Lucias Clay was a greedy old man
And that's all there ever was to it
[D]

[Verse 4]
But I couldn't believe it,
[C]I just had to fin[D]d out for myself
And I couldn't conceive it,
[C]I never would lis[G]ten to [D]nobody else
No I couldn't believe it,
[C]I just had to fin[G]d out for[D] myself
That there's some [C]things in
[G]this world you just can't ex[Dm]plain
[D]

[Verse 5]
The [Dm]Crayton boys were white trash
they lived over on Carvers Creek
They were [C]mean as a snake and
sneaky as a cat
And belligerent when they'd speak
One [Dm]night the oldest brother said ya'll
meet in the Wooly Swamp later
[D]We'll get[C] old Lucias' money and
we'll pitch him to the alligators
[G]They fou[Dm]nd the old man out in the back
with a shovel in his hand
And thir[C]teen rusty Mason jars he just
dug up out of the sand
And they [Dm]all went crazy and
they beat the old man
Then they picked him up off
the ground
Then they [C]threw him in the swamp and
they stood there and laughed
Till the black water sucked him down
Then they [Dm]turned around
and went back to the shack
And they [D]picked up the money
[Dm]and ran
But they hadn't [C]gone nowheres
when they realized
They were running in
quicksand
[D]And they struggled and [Dm]screamed
but they couldn't get away
Then [D]just before [Dm]they went under
They could [C]hear that old man laughing
In a voice that was loud
as thunder
[Dm]Now that's been fifty years ago an' if
you go back by there again
There's a [C]spot in the yard in
back of that shack
Where the ground is always wet
And on [Dm]certain nights if the moon is right
And you're down by the
dark footpath
You can [C]hear three young
men screaming
And you can hear that old man laugh

[Verse 6]
If [D]you ever go back into [C]Wooly Swamp
son you [G]better not go at night
[D]There's things out there
[C]in the middle of them woods
That'd make a [G]strong man
die [C]from fright
There's [D]things that crawl
[C]and things that fly
And thing[G]s that creep around
on the [D]ground
And they say the ghost [C]of Lucias Clay
gets [G]up and it [D]walks around

[Verse 7]
But I couldn't [D]believe it,
[C]I just had to fin[D]d out for myself
And I couldn't conceive it,
[C]I never would lis[D]ten to nobody else
No I couldn't believe it,
[C]I just had to fin[G]d out for[D] myself
That there's some [C]things in this [Bm]world
you just can't ex[D]plain

[Outro 1]
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