Well, I know that I shouldn't have done it
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I know that it just wasn't right
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'Cause they got me backed up to the Cotton Mouth River
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And I can't cross late at night
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Yeah, there's lots of stories told about the Cotton Mouth River
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They tell them time and again
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About the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
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And never were heard from again
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If I had my life to live over
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I'd have gone to work that day
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Instead of goin' into town and shootin' him down
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For a thing I never heard him say
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Yeah, there's lots of stories told about the Cotton Mouth River
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They tell them time and again
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About the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
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And never was heard from again
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Well, I just made it through the canebrake
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And I got one foot in the mud
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I can hear the hounds a-bayin' but the snake around my ankle
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Is tellin' me my running' days are done
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Yeah, there's lots of stories told about the Cotton Mouth River
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They tell them time and again
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About the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
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And never were heard from again
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Yeah, there's lots of stories told about the Cotton Mouth River
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They tell them time and again
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About the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
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And never were heard from again
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Cotton Mouth River
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| Jim Croce |
