Chords for Doug Kershaw - Louisiana Man

Sattler Brothers.
Hi guys.
Now let's go with Doug Kershaw's famous [D] Louisiana man. _
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_ Well at birth mom and papa call a little boy Ned, raise him on the back of a little bed,
on a houseboat tied to a big tall tree, a home for my papa and my mama and me.
[D] Black stripes three and papa jumps to his feet, already mama's thinking papa's something to eat.
At past papa he's ready to go, he jumps in his hero heavy down the bottom, _ [G] _ _ _ catch a big fish for us
two.
He's seven tracks in the trough, catching anything he's gotta make a living, he's a Louisiana man,
gotta make a living, he's a Louisiana man.
He's got a _ _ lady make a muskrat's cut, got a mouth dry,
hot so the little mama papa's gonna turn him in the morning. _
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_ _ _ _ _ Well they call my mama Rita and my
daddy Jack, little baby brother on the floor that's Mike and granddaddy and all the family twins.
Big brother Eddie's on a bio fish, on the river flowing papa's great big coach, and that's how my
papa goes in the town.
And from every bit of a night and a day, to even Rita plays for the people in
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_ town.
_ _ _ Papa pray that I could go, he even let me sleep on a cow.
[D] Now okay ain't it for the first time that I told my papa gotta go, a kiss papa said so we've got
life for lunch, we'll come back again the first of the week, look, got [G] the big black hook,
what's a Louisiana real bug, gotta catch a pig, get lost in the heat, get right,
he's in the club taking it into his hand, gotta make a living, he's a Louisiana man,
gotta make a living, he's a Louisiana man, gotta make a living, he's a Louisiana man,
gotta make a living, Louisiana man. _ _ _ _ _
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