"Louisiana Man" by Doug Kershaw

[S-Davis]

Seeking help with a few words/lines here and there.

I'm listening to the version by Doug Kershaw (second couisin of
country singer Sammy kershaw).

Here's what I hear with ?? where I can't make out the words

Well, at birth Mom and Papa called their little boy Ned
Raised him on the banks of the river bed
On a houseboat tied to a big tall tree
A home for my Papa and my Mama and me

The clock strikes three and Papa jumps to his feet
Already Mama's cookin' Papa somethin' to eat
At half past, Papa he's a-ready to go
He jumps in his ??????? head down the Bayou

He's got fishin' lines strung across the Louisiana River
Gotta catch a big fish for us to eat
He's settin' traps in the swamp catchin' anything he can
He's gotta make a livin' he's a Louisiana man

Gotta make a livin' he's a Louisiana man

My muskrats hides hangin' by the dozen
Even got a lady make a muskrat's ????????
Got 'em out dryin' in the hot hot sun
My Mom and Papa told me turn 'em in the mornin'

(Interlude)

Well, they call Mama Rita and my Daddy Jack
Little baby brother on the floor that's Mack
Fred and Ned are the family twins
Big brother Ed's on the bayou fishin'

On the river floats Papa's great big boat
And that's how my Papa goes into town
Fishin' every bit of a night and a day
??It even makes a place where the people stay??

And I can hardly wait until tomorrow comes around
That's the day my Papa takes the furs to town
Papa promised me that I could go
He'd even let me see a cowboy show

I saw cowboys and Indians for the first time then
I told my Papa gotta go again
Well, Papa said son we got lines to run
We'll come back again, first there's work to be done

He's got fishin' lines strung across the Louisiana River
Gotta catch a big fish for us to eat
He's settin' traps in the swamp catchin' anything he can
He's gotta make a livin' he's a Louisiana man

Gotta make a livin' he's a Louisiana man
Gotta make a livin' he's a Louisiana man
Gotta make a livin' he's a Louisiana man
Gotta make a livin' he's a Louisiana man

etc.

[Paul Laughlin]

S-Davis wrote:
>
> Seeking help with a few words/lines here and there.
>
> I'm listening to the version by Doug Kershaw (second couisin of
> country singer Sammy kershaw).
>
> Here's what I hear with ?? where I can't make out the words
>
> Well, at birth Mom and Papa called their little boy Ned
> Raised him on the banks of the river bed
> On a houseboat tied to a big tall tree
> A home for my Papa and my Mama and me
>
> The clock strikes three and Papa jumps to his feet
> Already Mama's cookin' Papa somethin' to eat
> At half past, Papa he's a-ready to go

> He jumps in his pirogue head down the Bayou

Please note that the pirogue is a dugout canoe.

Paul in Portland OR

[S-Davis]

Thanks Paul, I didn't know that.

Scott

Paul Laughlin wrote:
>
> S-Davis wrote:

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