INTRO: G
G Em
Well I know that I shouldn't have done it
C D G
I know that it just wasn't right
G G/F# Em
'Cause they got me backed up to the Cotton Mouth River
C D G
And I can't cross late at night
CHORUS:
D G
Yeah there's lots of stories told about the Cotton Mouth River
C D
They tell them time and again
G G/F# Em
About the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
C D G
And never were heard from again
G Em
If I had my life to live over
C D G
I'd a gone to work that day
G G/F# Em
Instead of going into town and shooting him down
C D G
For a thing I never heard him say
CHORUS
G Em
Well I just made it through the cane break
C D G
And I got one foot in the mud
G G/F# Em
I can hear the hounds a baying but the snake around my ankle's
C D G
Telling me my running days are done
CHORUS (2x)
