Chords for Jerry Reed - The Ballad of Gator McKlusky

[E] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] He's raised in the swamp, in black of the slough.
_ He grew up [G] eating rattlesnake meat, [A] drinking homemade brew.
_ [Em] Now folks here about call him Gator, and everybody knows him well.
Meanest [G] man ever hit the swamp, [A] folks swear he come straight out of hell.
[Em] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Well Gator McCluskey, sittin' on the stump, hammer pulled back on the 12-gauge.
[Bm] [Em] Watching that swamp cooking [A] out front [G] of law, while he make the best corn liquor [A] you ever smell. _
[Em] _ Right, good whiskey. _ _
While he's licking that mash, he watches and he looks.
Oh Gator, he knows that swamp like a book.
Something out there moving Gator, [A] what do you [G] see?
Ain't nothing but the [A] snakes and the gators and [B] me.
_ _ _ [E] Yeah, my thing's donk-a-donk and [B] donk-a-panokie.
That [E] chef ain't snooping around, so [G] cook that moonshine down.
[B] Till it's good and [E] clear, yeah my thing's donk-a-donk and [B] donk-a-panokie.
That [A] chef here [Em] sooner mess around with the devil than to get [C] himself [A] lost messing around in here.
_ _ [Em] _
One _ _ _ day he was cooking some mash, he was almost done when he spotted the Lord and he had to run.
So he headed for the swamp and [A] he followed him in, but [G] the Lord might as well have been chasing the [A] wind. _ _
_ [Em] Look out for that snake, son. _ _
Well, they chased him on back through the muck and the slime, through the back of that swamp where the sun don't shine.
But the Lord won't never catch [A] Gator, my [G] friend, cause he knows that [A] swamp like the back of [B] his hand.
_ _ [E] Watch out for those smokies and [B] the donk-a [D]-panokie.
[B] The [E] chef's out there snooping around, so [A] shut that [G] business down [B] and let's [E] disappear.
Look out for those smokies and the [B] donk-a-panokie.
But that [A] chef, he's really [E] gonna catch the devil [G] if he [C] keeps on [A] snooping around in here.
_ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [E] Gator's in the swamp, chef.
Go get him, if you can.
[A] Oh, [Em] _ sorry. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Careful, chef.
_ _ Don't let that Gator bite you on your golden hair. _ _ _ _ _