Chords for The Charlie Daniels Band - Alligator.wmv

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_ _ _ Old Cattahoola Brown lived back in the swamp with his [A] dogs and a bunch of sons.
[D] One teenage daughter named Sally Sue, she [E] was as pretty as a newborn fawn.
And he didn't like sinners and he didn't like [A] saints and he didn't like anything.
[D] But as much as he disliked everybody else, [E] he just hated old Silas Gray.
[A#m] [B] Sally Sue come in [E] on a Saturday [A] evening as the sun was going down.
[C#] [D] She said, Papa, if it's alright [D#] with you, [E] well, I think I'm gonna go to town.
He said, daughter, you get on back in the house, cause you ain't going no place
[C#] [D] until you get them ribbons out of your hair and [E] wash the makeup off of your face.
She said, Papa, don't you be so hard on me, cause I [Em] just got a date
with [D] this boy I met in Sunday school and [E] we ain't gonna be out late.
And then she walked on up to the rural route and she [A] caught herself a ride.
[D] But you won't know, boy, from Sunday school, [E] there was a-sittin' on the other side.
It was Silas Gray's youngest son, Bobby Joe, sittin' under that stairs.
_ _ Alligator, alligator, swimmin' in the spring.
_ Alligator, alligator, what makes you so mean?
_ Alligator, alligator, I wonder where you've been.
He just swallowed [D] old Ketahoula Brown, and he never seen him [A] again.
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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [E] Ketahoula got up on Sunday morning, made [Am] some coffee and had him a cup.
[D] Then he walked on out to the back of the [E] house to get his pretty daughter up.
He went a-runnin' in the room where the boys all slept, [A] hollin', get up, somethin' ain't right.
[D] And I'm worried to death cause your daughter, little sister, [E] didn't even come home last night.
Johnny said, Papa, don't be mad at me, [A] I sure hate to tell you this.
[D] But I seen her in town with Bobby Joe [E] Green and I even seen her givin' him a kiss.
And I tried to get her to come on [A] back, but she told me to leave her alone.
[D] She said they was gettin' mad before the sun come [E] up and she wasn't never comin' home.
Ketahoula grabbed the boy by the nap of the [A] neck and he slapped him upside the head.
[D] He said, before I see her married to that [E] trash, I'd rather see the little girl dead.
And then he whistled at the dog and he grabbed his [A] gun, he was full of evil and might.
[D] He went a-runnin' across the woods, hollin' side of the [E] screen, his bunch was gonna die tonight.
Then a day went by and he didn't come [A] back and then another went by and then a week.
[D] And when the boys went lookin', all they found was his [E] shotgun layin' on the bottom of the creek.
And then they found his boots and they found his [A] cap, but they couldn't find anything else.
[D] Except a big fat alligator sittin' on [E] a log lookin' mighty proud of his self.
It don't pay to hate somebody so bad you go stompin' around in gear country.
Alligator, alligator, swimmin' in the creek. _
Alligator, alligator, what makes you so mean? _
Alligator, alligator, wonder where you been.
They beat your squatter, [D] who cared the hula brown? _ _ _ _
I ain't never seen him again.
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