Well I know that I shouldn't have done it

I know that it just wasn't right

Cause it got me backed up to the cotton mouth river

And I can't cross late at night

Yeah there's lots of stories told about the cotton mouth river

They tell them time and again

About them men who tried to cross that river by moonlight

And never were heard from again

If I had my life to live over

I'd have gone to work that day

Instead of going into town and shooting him down

For a thing I never heard him say

Yeah there's lots of stories told about the cotton mouth river

They tell them time and again

About them men who tried to cross that river by moonlight

And never was heard from again

Well I just made it through the cane break

And I got one foot in the mud

I can hear the hounds obeying

But the snake around my ankles

Telling me my running days are done

Yeah there's lots of stories told about the cotton mouth river

They tell them time and again

About them men who tried to cross that river by moonlight

And never was heard from again

Yeah there's lots of stories told about the cotton mouth river

They tell them time and again

About them men who tried to cross that river by moonlight

And never were heard from again