Intro
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Way down in Louisiana, where the moss and cyprus grew,
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You'd find old Jack in a shotgun shack
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In the back of the black bayou.
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Some folks called him crazy, but I knew better than that,
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He kept a hundred dollar bill tucked away in the brim
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Of his dirty old cowboy hat.
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Jack told me a story when I was ten years old,
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He said there once was a fool tried to swim this swamp
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With his back weighted down with gold.
He said "You should have seen that alligator smile,
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He had a meal fit for a king, but he ended up on my table son,
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Money ain't everything."
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He said there's only one way into this world,
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And one way out, its true.
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You either eat the alligator or he's gonna eat you.
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There's people living in a high rise,
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That'll never hear a robin sing.
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What good is first place when you're in a rat race?
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Money ain't everything.
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Little Maggie May was dyin', her heart was about to go,
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When her daddy found a sack on the porch out back
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With half a million dollars in gold.
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They still talk about the stranger who saved her life that spring,
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No name on the note, but someone wrote:
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Money ain't everything.
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He said there's only one way into this world,
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And one way out, its true.
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You either eat the alligator or he's gonna eat you.
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There's people living in a high rise,
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That'll never hear a robin sing.
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What good is first place when you're in a rat race?
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Money ain't everything.
No name on the note, but I know who wrote:
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Money ain't everything.
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