Now Amos Moses was a Cajun    He lived by his self in the swamp   He hunted alligator for livin'    He just knocked em' in the head with a stump    Louisiana law gonna get you Amos    It ain't legal huntin' alligators down in the swamp boy    Now everybody blamed his old man For makin' him mean as a snake      When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy'd use him for alligator bait   Tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp    Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou       Chorus   About forty-five minutes south of Thibodaux Louisiana   Lived a cat named Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Hanna   Well they raised up a son that could eat up his weight in groceries   Named him after a man of the cloth   Called him Amos Moses       Everybody in south Louisiana Said Amos was a helluva man   He could trap the biggest and meanest alligator and just use one hand   That's all he got left cause a alligator bit it    Left arm gone clean up to the elbow       Well the sheriff caught wind of Amos    In the swamp trappin alligator skins   That sheriff went lookin for Amos    Boy you know he never come out again   I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to    You can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou       Chorus   Chorus