Well if you ever go back into Wooly Swamp Well you'd better not go at night There's things out there in the middle 'them woods that'd make a strong man probably cry Things that crawl things that fly and things that creep around on the ground. And they say the ghost of Lushious Clay gets up and he walks around
But I couldn't believe it I just had to find out for myself And I couldn't conceieve it 'Cuz I never woulda listened to nobody else 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
The old man lived in the Wooly Swamp way back in But he never did do any good Wilber Woods He never did do alot of harm to the world 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 buried them all around And on certain nights if the moon was right he'd dig them up out of the ground He'd pour it all our on the floor of his shack and run his fingers through it Yeah Lushious Clay was a greedy ol' man and that's all there ever was to it
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The Cabel boys was white trash who lived over on Carver's Creek They were mean as a snake and sneaky as a cat and belligerent when they speak The oldest brother said ya'll meet me in the Wooly Swamp later We'll take ol' Lushious' money and we'll feed him to the alagators They found the old man out in the back with a shovel in his hand And thirteen rusty mason jars he'd just dug up out of the sand And they all went crazy and they beat the old man and picked him up off the ground Threw him in the swamp then 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 quick sand And they struggled and they screamed but they couldn't get away And just before they went under they could hear that old man laughing in a voice as loud as thunder
It's been fifty years ago and you can go by there again There's a spot in the yard at the floor of that shack where the ground is always wet And on certain nights when the moon is right down by that dark mud path You can year three young men screaming You can hear one old man laugh