Chords for Big Alligator (full version) Jim Billie

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_ _ _ _ I'd like to welcome you to my village here.
We're getting ready to cook some food and share it with our own people here.
In the meantime, I remember when I was a little boy, I was raised in a camp similar to this.
My toys were snakes, ant beds, wasps, frogs, and it's amazing how I've survived and probably
many other children around the world probably survived the same way as I did.
_ The things we ate is the things we caught or killed that day.
And it's still basically similar here, but my son is no exception.
I've tried to make the Indian huts here called chickies and the cook huts and everything,
a place where he can enjoy a little bit of what I grew up in.
I remember when I was small, my grandparents used to kill alligators.
And _ once they killed the mother or the big gators, then it was time to catch the baby
gators and they were only about this small.
They were only about five or six inches long.
If they bit you, it didn't hurt too bad.
_ So I would go in there and capture the little ones.
The tourists used to give us maybe a nickel or 10 cents or something like this.
I used to take that and buy Cracker Jacks and everything.
My son, when he was born, he was only about three months old, I think he was.
I caught an alligator and showed it to him.
He jumped to it real fast as if he knew what he was doing.
So as I see him going about doing different things, tearing up ant beds, looking at it,
and the ants are going to get over him and probably chew on his leg and make him cry,
or picking up a toad or a frog or touching a wasps nest.
Every one of those things might harm you one way or the other, especially the wasps nest.
They're going to sting you or something.
Messing around with snakes, it's a taboo.
Might be a poisonous one.
So once in a while I'll catch Miko playing with a snake and I say, get away from there.
He doesn't really know yet, he's only two years old.
So it's my duty and his mother's duty and the rest of us around here to keep an eye on him.
Hopefully if he does get bit, it's just a minor one.
So you know, a little bit at a time he gets experience and pull on through.
I wrote a song one time, it's called Big Alligator.
Miko was out there chasing a baby gator and he almost caught the gator one time.
Then next time he chased it into the water and grabbed its tail and the alligator jumped
up and bit his thumb.
I hope you enjoyed this video we made.
It's called Half-Petit Chuby.
Miko starts it off. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ [D] He told me [A] to beware of a half-petit chuby, [C] not your mitchkick.
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[A] _ the _ days of [C] the summer grew longer and hot, [G] Grandpa took me [D] on my first [A] gator hunt.
We pushed the [C] sawgrass willow slew [G] with a big yellow dog [D] and dug [A] out the noose.
The dog started [C] sniffing something in the [G] air.
Grandpa said, [D] must be [A] gator over there.
Better grab your knife [C]
and some rope [G] and remember what I told you when [A] you was a boy.
Half-petit [C] chuby, not your mitchkick.
[G] Half-petit [D] chuby, oaking [A] day.
Half-petit [C] chuby, he no not easy [G] one.
Half-petit chuby, [D] he not easy [A] one. _ _
At the age of twelve, I [C] was sure of myself.
[G] I could catch alligators [D] by [A] myself.
But my dog didn't know [C] what my grandpa said.
[G] He jumped in the water [D] by the [A] gator's head.
Half-petit [C] chuby didn't even [G] pause.
My dog [D] disappeared in the [A] gator's jaws.
I can still hear my grandpa saying,
_ Half-petit chuby, not [C] your mitchkick.
[G] Half-petit chuby, [D] oaking day.
[A] Half-petit chuby, [C] he no not easy one.
[G] Half-petit chuby, [D] he not [A] easy one.
Half-petit chuby, [C] not your mitchkick.
[G] Half-petit chuby, [D] oaking [A] day.
Half-petit [C] chuby, he no not easy one.
[G] Half-petit chuby, [D] he not [A] easy one.
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_ Many years later, [C] I remember that day,
[G] How that big bull [D] gator swallowed [A] my dog.
Scars and [C] pain haunt my life,
[G] But I've learned to live [D] and I learn [A] to thrive.
Half-petit chuby, [C] not your mitchkick.
[G] Half-petit chuby, [D] oaking [A] day.
Half-petit [C] chuby, he no no easy one.
[G] Half-petit chuby, [D] he no [A] not easy one.
Half-petit chuby, [C] not your mitchkick.
[G] Half-petit chuby, [D] oaking day.
[A] Half-petit chuby, [C] he no not easy one.
[G] Half-petit chuby, [D] he not easy [A] one.
Hulk, what did you do?
_ Hulk, what did you eat?
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