Karaoké The Legend of Wooley Swamp The Charlie Daniels Band

Well if you ever go back into

Wooly Swamp well you better not go at night

There's things out there in the middle of them woods that'd make a strong man die from fright

Things that crawl and things that fly and things that creep around on the ground

And they say the ghost of

Lucias Clay gets up and it walks around

But I couldn't believe it

I just had to find out for myself

And I couldn't conceive it

'Cos I never would listen to nobody else

And I couldn't believe it

I just had to find out for myself

There's some things in this world you just can't explain

The old man lived in the Wooly Swamp way back in Booger Woods

He never did do a lot of harm in the world but he never did do no good

People didn't think too much of him

They all thought he acted funny

The old man didn't care about people anyway

All he cared about was his money

He'd stuff it all down into

Mason jars and he'd bury it all around

And on certain nights if the moon was right he'd dig it up out of the ground

He'd pour it all out on the floor of his shack and he'd run his fingers through it

Yeah Lucias Clay was a greedy old man and that's all there ever was to it

But I couldn't believe it

I just had to find out for myself

And I couldn't conceive it

'Cos I never would listen to nobody else

And I couldn't believe it

I just had to find out for myself

There's some things in this world you just can't explain

The Cagle boys was white trash

They lived over on

Carver's Creek

They were mean as a snake and sneaky as a cat and belligerent when they'd speak

One night the oldest brother said ya'll meet me in the Wooly Swamp later

And we'll take old Lucias' money and we'll feed him to the alligators

They found the old man out in the back with a shovel in his hand

And thirteen rustic Mason jars he just dug up out of the sand

And they all went crazy and they beat the old man then they picked him up off the ground

Threw him in the swamp and stood there and laughed as the black water sucked him down

Then they turned around and went back to the shack

Picked up the money and ran

They hadn't gone nowhere when they realized they were running in quicksand

And they struggled and they screamed but they couldn't get away then just before they went under

They could hear that old man laughing in a voice as loud as thunder

Now that's been fifty years ago

You can't go by there yet

There's a spot in the yard in the back of that shack where the ground is always wet

And on certain nights if the moon is right and by that dark footpath

You can hear three young men screaming

You can hear one old man laugh

If you ever go back into

Wooly Swamp well you better not go at night

There's things out there in the middle of them woods that'd make a strong man die from fright

Things that crawl and things that fly and things that creep around on the ground

And they say the ghost of

Lucias Clay gets up and it walks around

But I couldn't believe it

I just had to find out for myself

And I couldn't conceive it

'Cos I never would listen to nobody else

And I couldn't believe it

I just had to find out for myself

But there's some things in this world you just can't explain

Some things in this world you just can't explain