Chords for The Charlie Daniels Band - The Legend Of Wooley Swamp - 11/22/1985 - Capitol Theatre
Tempo:
103.75 bpm
Chords used:
C
D
A
Dm
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Jam Along & Learn...
[D]
[A] [D]
[D] [Dm] If
[D]
[A] [D] you hate your gold [C] pack and your booty's small, [G] baby, better not go in [D] there.
middle of the [G] woods make strong men [C] happy.
things, the [D] flying things that creep around on [A] the ground.
of the Lucius [E] plague eats up and [D] he walks around, but I couldn't [C] believe it.
[A] [D]
[D] [Dm] If
[D]
[A] [D] you hate your gold [C] pack and your booty's small, [G] baby, better not go in [D] there.
middle of the [G] woods make strong men [C] happy.
things, the [D] flying things that creep around on [A] the ground.
of the Lucius [E] plague eats up and [D] he walks around, but I couldn't [C] believe it.
100% ➙ 104BPM
C
D
A
Dm
G
C
D
A
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Dm] If _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [D] you hate your gold [C] pack and your booty's small, [G] baby, better not go in [D] there.
Things out [C] there in the middle of the [G] woods make strong men [C] happy.
[D] The things that [C] cry all the things, the [D] flying things that creep around on [A] the ground.
And they say the ghost of the Lucius [E] plague eats up and [D] he walks around, but I couldn't [C] believe it.
I just had to [D] find out what was safe and I couldn't contain [C] it.
Cause I never [E] would have listened [D] to nobody else and I couldn't [C] believe it.
[A] I just had to [D] find out for myself.
[Dm] There's some things [Bm] in this world you just [D] can't explain. _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [Dm] _ Old man lived in the woolly swamp way back in Booger Woods.
[C] And it never did do a lot of harm in the world, but it never did do no good.
[Dm] People didn't [A] think too much of him.
They all thought he acted funny.
[C] Old man didn't care about people anyway.
All he cared about [Am] was his money.
[Dm] He stuck it all down in the mason jars and buried it all around.
[C] And on certain nights if the moon was right, he'd dig it up out of the ground.
[Dm] And he'd pour it all out on the floor of his shack and rub his fingers through [C] it.
Yeah, Lucius plague was a greedy old man.
That's all that there was to it.
[D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ But I couldn't believe it.
[C] _
[A] I just had to find [D] out what was safe and I couldn't contain [C] it.
Cause I never would have [D] listened to nobody else and I couldn't believe it.
[C] _ [Am] I just had to find [D] out for myself.
[C] There's some things in this world you just can't explain. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ There were boys that's white trash that lived over on Carver's Creek.
[A] And they were mean as a snake, sneaky as a cat, and belligerent when they'd speak.
[Dm] One night the oldest brother said, y'all, we'll get in the wooded swamp later.
[C] We'll take old Lucius' money and we'll feed him to the alligators.
[Dm] Found the old man out in the back with a shovel in his hand.
[C] _ Thirteen rusty mason jars he just dug up out of the [Am] sand.
They [Dm] all went crazy and they beat the old man and picked him up off the ground.
[C] And then they threw him in the swamp and they sat there and laughed as the black water sucked him down.
Then [Dm] they turned around and went back to the shack, picked up [F] the money and ran.
[C] Hadn't gone nowhere when they realized that they were running in thick sand.
[Dm] And they struggled to scream but they couldn't get away just before they went under.
[F] [C] They could hear that old man laughing, oh, she's [Dm] loud as slug.
It's been fifty years ago and you can go by there yet.
[C] And there's a spot in the yard in the back of that shack where the ground is always wet.
[D] And on certain nights it blooms right down by that dark wood path.
[C] You can hear three young men [A] screaming.
You can hear one old [C] man laugh.
[D] If you ever go [C] back in your good old swamp [G] where you better not go in [D] there.
Things out [C] there in the middle of the [G] woods make a strong man [C] die for a fight.
[D] Easy [C] callin' names, they [A] flyin' things that creep around on the [D] ground.
And they say the [C] ghost of Lucius' [G] plague eats up and he [A] walks around.
But I couldn't believe [C] it.
[A] I just had to [D] find out for myself.
And I couldn't conceive it.
[C]
I never would have [D] guessed it.
But I said I couldn't believe it.
[C] _
[A] I just had to find [D] out for myself.
[C] There's some [B] things in this world you just can't [D] explain.
_ _ _ [Bm] Some things in this world you just [D] can't explain. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Dm] If _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [D] you hate your gold [C] pack and your booty's small, [G] baby, better not go in [D] there.
Things out [C] there in the middle of the [G] woods make strong men [C] happy.
[D] The things that [C] cry all the things, the [D] flying things that creep around on [A] the ground.
And they say the ghost of the Lucius [E] plague eats up and [D] he walks around, but I couldn't [C] believe it.
I just had to [D] find out what was safe and I couldn't contain [C] it.
Cause I never [E] would have listened [D] to nobody else and I couldn't [C] believe it.
[A] I just had to [D] find out for myself.
[Dm] There's some things [Bm] in this world you just [D] can't explain. _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [Dm] _ Old man lived in the woolly swamp way back in Booger Woods.
[C] And it never did do a lot of harm in the world, but it never did do no good.
[Dm] People didn't [A] think too much of him.
They all thought he acted funny.
[C] Old man didn't care about people anyway.
All he cared about [Am] was his money.
[Dm] He stuck it all down in the mason jars and buried it all around.
[C] And on certain nights if the moon was right, he'd dig it up out of the ground.
[Dm] And he'd pour it all out on the floor of his shack and rub his fingers through [C] it.
Yeah, Lucius plague was a greedy old man.
That's all that there was to it.
[D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ But I couldn't believe it.
[C] _
[A] I just had to find [D] out what was safe and I couldn't contain [C] it.
Cause I never would have [D] listened to nobody else and I couldn't believe it.
[C] _ [Am] I just had to find [D] out for myself.
[C] There's some things in this world you just can't explain. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ There were boys that's white trash that lived over on Carver's Creek.
[A] And they were mean as a snake, sneaky as a cat, and belligerent when they'd speak.
[Dm] One night the oldest brother said, y'all, we'll get in the wooded swamp later.
[C] We'll take old Lucius' money and we'll feed him to the alligators.
[Dm] Found the old man out in the back with a shovel in his hand.
[C] _ Thirteen rusty mason jars he just dug up out of the [Am] sand.
They [Dm] all went crazy and they beat the old man and picked him up off the ground.
[C] And then they threw him in the swamp and they sat there and laughed as the black water sucked him down.
Then [Dm] they turned around and went back to the shack, picked up [F] the money and ran.
[C] Hadn't gone nowhere when they realized that they were running in thick sand.
[Dm] And they struggled to scream but they couldn't get away just before they went under.
[F] [C] They could hear that old man laughing, oh, she's [Dm] loud as slug.
It's been fifty years ago and you can go by there yet.
[C] And there's a spot in the yard in the back of that shack where the ground is always wet.
[D] And on certain nights it blooms right down by that dark wood path.
[C] You can hear three young men [A] screaming.
You can hear one old [C] man laugh.
[D] If you ever go [C] back in your good old swamp [G] where you better not go in [D] there.
Things out [C] there in the middle of the [G] woods make a strong man [C] die for a fight.
[D] Easy [C] callin' names, they [A] flyin' things that creep around on the [D] ground.
And they say the [C] ghost of Lucius' [G] plague eats up and he [A] walks around.
But I couldn't believe [C] it.
[A] I just had to [D] find out for myself.
And I couldn't conceive it.
[C]
I never would have [D] guessed it.
But I said I couldn't believe it.
[C] _
[A] I just had to find [D] out for myself.
[C] There's some [B] things in this world you just can't [D] explain.
_ _ _ [Bm] Some things in this world you just [D] can't explain. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _