The Legend Of Wooley Swamp Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]It's a good night,
honor to [G]be here y [D]'all.
[Am]Let's slow it down one time.
In the Woolies [D]Swamp.
[Am][D][Am]
[D][Am][G]
[Am]If you ever go back in
the [G]Woolies Swamp
You [D]better not go at night
An[A]d there's things I've heard
[G]Middle to the woods
And they [D]make me draw me to rain
[G]Yeah, thi[A]ngs that crawl
And [G]things that fly
Thing[D]s that creep around on the ground
An[A]d they say the ghost
that loses [G]its way
Gets up [D]and he walks around
[A]Well, I couldn't believe it
[G]Just had to fin[D]d out for[A] myself
Yeah, I couldn't conceive it
[G]And I don[D]e listened on by now
[A]Yes, I couldn't believe it
I [G]just had [D]to find out for myself
[A]There's som[G]e things in this world
[D]you just can't [A]explain[Am][A]
The old [Am]man lived in the woolly swamp
Way back in the [D]booger wood[Am]s
[G]He never did no lot of harm in the [D]world
But he [G]just didn't ever do much good
[A]Yea[Am]h, people didn't
think too much of him
They thought he [F]ac ted kind of [Am]funny
[D]But that [G]old man didn't care
about the people anyway
He'd just care about his [D]money
[Am]He'd stuff it all down in mason jars
And bury it all around
Yeah, [G]certain nights if the
moon was right
He'd dig it up out of the ground
He'd [Am]pour it all [A]out on the
[Am]floor of his shack
And he'd run his fingers through it
Yeah, [G]Lucius Clay was a
greedy old man
And that's all there ever was to it
[Am]

[Verse 2]
[G]Yeah, I couldn't be[A]lieve it
[G]I just had to f[D]ind out for myself,
[A]yeah, I couldn't conceive it
[G]I just never l[D]istened to nobody e[A]lse,
I couldn't believe it
[G]I just had to find out f[A]or
myself
There's some [G]things in this world
[D]you just can't ex[Am]plain
Oh, yeah
See them cable boys, were white trash
They lived over at Carver's Creek
They were [G]mean as a snake
and sneaky as a cat
and belligerent when they speak.
Then one [Am]night, the oldest brother said,
y 'all meet me at the
woolly swamp later.
We'll [G]take a hold of Lucius' money,
then we'll feed him to the [C]al [G]ligator.
And they [A]found that [Am]old man back
with a shovel in his hand
[A]and[G] 13 rusty mason jars
he just dug up out of the sand.
[D]They all [A]went crazy,
and they [Am]beat that old man,
and they [F]packed him up in the [Am]ground.
And [G]they threw him in the swamp
and stood there and laughed
while that black water sucked him down
[Am]And [A]they turned around
and [Am]went back to the shack
and they [A]picked up that money and [Am]ran
[G]But they wasn't going nowhere,
cause they realized they were
running in quicksand
And [Am]they struggled and screamed
and they couldn't get away just
before they went under
They couldn't [G]hear that old man laughing
with a voice as loud as thunder
An[Am]d that was 50 years ago,
and [F]you can go there [Am]yet
[A]There's a [G]spot in the back of the yard
Where the ground is always wet
Cer[Am]tain nights, the moon is right
[E]Down by that dark footpath
[Em]You can [G]hear the three
young men screaming
And hear one old man [Am]laugh
The [G]wood is strong,
but you [D]better not go at night
[A]There's [Am]things in the dirt,
[G]in middle of the woods
That make a [D]strong man die from fear
[G]Yeah, the thi[A]ngs that crawl,
[G]the things that fly
The [D]things that took
a pound off the ground
[A]They say it's cause of a [G]luscious plague
As [D]a reindeer walks around
[A]Well, I couldn't believe it
[G]Just had to [D]find out [A]for myself
Yeah, I couldn't conceive it
[G]Never did thi[D]s to nobody else
[A]I couldn't believe it[G]
Just had to [D]find it out [A]for
myself
There's some [G]things in this world
[D]you just can't ex[A]plain
Yeah, [G]there's some things in this world
[D]you just can't ex [A]pla[Am]in
Thank y [A]'all so much
for having me tonight
Y 'all are such [D]an honor to be here
[Am]This band right here,
give it up for them
[D][Am]