WELL IF YOU E VER

GO BACK IN

THE WOO LEY SWAMP

WELL YOU BET TER NOT

GO AT NIGHT

THERE'S THINGS

OUT THERE

IN THE MIDDLE

OF THEM WOODS

THAT MAKE

A STRONG MAN

DIE FROM FRIGHT

THINGS THAT CRAWL

AND THINGS THAT FLY

AND THINGS THAT

CREEP A ROUND

ON THE GROUND

AND THEY SAY

THE GHOST OF

LU CIUS CLAY

GETS UP AND

HE WALKS A ROUND

BUT I COULD N'T

BE LIEVE IT

I JUST HAD TO

FIND OUT FOR MY SELF

AND I COULD N'T

CON CEIVE IT

'CAUSE I NE VER

WOULD LIS TEN

TO NO BO DY ELSE

AND I COULD N'T

BE LIEVE IT

I JUST HAD TO

FIND OUT FOR MY SELF

THERE'S SOME THINGS

IN THIS WORLD

YOU JUST CAN'T EX PLAIN

THE OLD MAN LIVED

IN THE WOO LEY SWAMP

WAY BACK IN

BOO GER WOODS

HE NE VER DID

DO A LOTTA HARM

IN THE WORLD

BUT HE NE VER DID

DO NO GOOD

PEO PLE DIDN'T THINK

TOO MUCH OF HIM

THEY ALL THOUGHT

HE AC TED FUN NY

THE OLD MAN

DID N'T CARE A BOUT

PEO PLE ANY WAY

ALL HE CARED A BOUT

WAS HIS MO NEY

HE'D STUFF IT ALL DOWN

IN TO MA SON JARS

AND HE'D BU RY IT

ALL A ROUND

AND ON CER TAIN NIGHTS

IF THE MOON WAS RIGHT

HE'D DIG IT UP

OUT TA THE GROUND

HE'D POUR IT ALL OUT

ON THE FLOOR

OF HIS SHACK AND

HE'D RUN HIS FIN GERS

THROUGH IT

YEAH LU CIUS CLAY

WAS A GREE DY OLD MAN

AND THAT'S ALL

THAT THERE WAS TO IT

BUT I COULD N'T

BE LIEVE IT

I JUST HAD TO

FIND OUT FOR MY SELF

AND I COULD N'T

CON CEIVE IT

'CAUSE I NE VER

WOULD LIS TEN

TO NO BO DY ELSE

AND I COULD N'T

BE LIEVE IT

I JUST HAD TO

FIND OUT FOR MY SELF

BUT THERE'S

SOME THINGS

IN THIS WORLD

YOU JUST CAN'T EX PLAIN

THE CA GLE BOYS

WAS WHITE TRASH

THEY LIVED O VER ON

CAR VER'S CREEK

THEY WERE

MEAN AS A SNAKE

AND SNEAKY AS A CAT

AND BELLI GERENT

WHEN THEY'D SPEAK

ONE NIGHT

THE OLD EST BRO THER

SAID Y'ALL MEET ME

IN THE WOO LEY SWAMP

LATER

AND WE'LL TAKE

OLD LU CIUS'S MO NEY

AND WE'LL FEED HIM

TO THE ALLI GATORS

THEY FOUND

THE OLD MAN

OUT IN THE BACK

WITH A SHO VEL

IN HIS HAND

AND THIR TEEN

RUS TY MA SON JARS

HE'D JUST DUG UP

OUT OF THE SAND

AND THEY

ALL WENT CRAZY

AND THEY

BEAT THE OLD MAN

AND THEY PICKED HIM UP

OFF-A THE GROUND AND

THREW HIM

IN THE SWAMP

AND STOOD THERE

AND LAUGHED

AS THE BLACK WA TER

SUCKED HIM DOWN

THEN THEY

TURNED A ROUND

AND WENT BACK

TO THE SHACK

AND PICKED UP

THE MO NEY AND RAN

THEY HAD N'T

GONE NO WHERE

WHEN THEY REA LIZED

THEY WERE

RUN NIN' IN QUICK SAND

THEN THEY STRUG GLED

AND THEY SCREAMED

BUT THEY COULD N'T

GET AWAY

AND JUST BE FORE

THEY WENT UN DER

THEY COULD HEAR

THAT OLD MAN LAUGH IN'

IN A VOICE

AS LOUD AS THUN DER

NOW IT'S BEEN

FIF TY YEARS A GO

AND YOU CAN

GO BY THERE YET

THERE'S A SPOT

IN THE YARD

IN THE BACK

OF THAT SHACK

WHERE THE GROUND

IS AL WAYS WET

AND ON CER TAIN NIGHTS

IF THE MOON IS RIGHT

DOWN BY THAT

DARK FOOT PATH

YOU CAN HEAR

THREE YOUNG MEN

SCREA MIN' AND

YOU CAN HEAR

ONE OLD MAN LAUGH

YA E VER GO BACK

IN THE WOO LEY SWAMP

WELL YOU BET TER NOT

GO AT NIGHT

THERE'S THINGS

OUT THERE

IN THE MIDDLE

OF THEM WOODS

THAT MAKE

A STRONG MAN

DIE FROM FRIGHT

THINGS THAT CRAWL

AND THINGS THAT FLY

AND THINGS THAT

CREEP A ROUND

ON THE GROUND

AND THEY SAY

THE GHOST OF

LU CIUS CLAY

GETS UP AND

HE WALKS A ROUND

BUT I COULD N'T

BE LIEVE IT

I JUST HAD TO

FIND OUT FOR MY SELF

AND I COULD N'T

CON CEIVE IT

'CAUSE I NE VER

WOULD LIS TEN

TO NO BO DY ELSE

AND I COULD N'T

BE LIEVE IT

I JUST HAD TO

FIND OUT FOR MY SELF

BUT THERE'S

SOME THINGS

IN THIS WORLD

YOU JUST CAN'T EX PLAIN

SOME THINGS

IN THIS WORLD

YOU JUST CAN'T EX PLAIN