Legend Of Wooley Swamp chords

Charlie Daniels

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Well if you ever go back into wooley swamp  
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Well ya better not go at night 
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Theres things out there in the middle of them woods 
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That'll make a strong man die from fright 
D                   C 
Things that crawl, things that fly and  
F                               D 
Things that creep around on the ground 
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And they say that the ghost of Lucius Clay gets up and he walks around 
              D          C 
But I couldnt believe it 
              G              D 
I just had to find out for myself 
              D           C 
And I couldnt concieve it 
                     G                  D 
Cus I never would've listened to nobody else 
              D          C 
And I couldnt believe it 
              G              D 
I just had to find out for myself 
           C                    G                   D 
And theres some things in this world you just cant explain 
    D 
The old man lived in the Wooley Swamp way back in Booger Woods.  
    C 
He never did do a lot of harm in the world, but he never did do no good.  
    D 
People didn't think too much of him, they all thought he acted funny.  
         C 
The old man didn't care about people anyway, all he cared about was his money. 
      D 
He'd stuff it alldown in mason jars and he'd bury it all around. 
        C 
And on certain nights if the moon was right he'd dig it up out of the ground. 
      D 
He'd pour it all out on the floor of his shack and run his fingers through it.  
       C 
Yeah, Lucius Clay was a greedy oldman and that's all that there was to it. 
 
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              D          C 
But I couldnt believe it 
              G              D 
I just had to find out for myself 
              D           C 
And I couldnt concieve it 
                     G                  D 
Cus I never would've listened to nobody else 
              D          C 
And I couldnt believe it 
              G              D 
I just had to find out for myself 
           C *(1)               G                   D 
And theres some things in this world you just cant explain 
 
      D 
Cable boys was white trash, they lived over on Carver's Creek.  
      C 
They were mean as a snake and sneaky as a cat and belligerent when they'd speak. 
      D 
One night the oldest brother said, "Y'all meet me at the Wooley Swamp later. 
      C 
We'll take old Lucius's money and we'll feed him to the alligators." 
      D *(2) 
They found the old man out in the back with a shovel in his hand, 
      C *(3) 
Thirteen rusty mason jars was just dug up out of the sand. 
      D *(2) 
And they all went crazy and they beat the old man,and the picked him up off of 
the ground. 
      C *(3) 
Threw him in the swamp and stood there and laughed as the black water sucked  
im down. 
      D *(2) 
Then they turned around and went back to the shack and picked up the money and  
an. 
      C *(3) 
They hadn't gone nowhere when they realized they were running in quicksand. 
      D *(2) 
And they struggled and they screamed but they couldn't get away and just  
efore they went under, 
      C *(3) 
They could hear that old man laughing in a voice as loud as thunder. 
            D 
And that's been fifty years ago and you can go by there yet. 
           C 
There's a spot in the yard in the back of that shack where the ground is  
always wet. 
        D 
And on summer nights, if the moon is right down by the that dark footpath, 
        C 
You can hear three young men screaming, you can hear one old man laugh. 
 
            D                 C 
Well if you ever go back into wooley swamp  
        F                D 
Well ya better not go at night 
       D                       C           
Theres things out there in the middle of them woods 
               F                   D  
That'll make a strong man die from fright 
D                   C 
Things that crawl, things that fly and  
F                               D 
Things that creep around on the ground 
          D                     C                F                D 
And they say that the ghost of Lucius Clay gets up and he walks around 
 
              D          C 
But I couldnt believe it 
              G              D 
I just had to find out for myself 
              D           C 
And I couldnt concieve it 
                     G                  D 
Cus I never would've listened to nobody else 
              D          C 
And I couldnt believe it 
              G              D 
I just had to find out for myself 
           C *(1)               G                   D 
And theres some things in this world you just cant explain 
           C *(1)               G                   D 
And theres some things in this world you just cant explain 
 
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