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From a town in Louisiana on the wrong side of the tracks, |
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came a rowdy Ragin Cajun by the name of Rupernac, |
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He was harder than a hickory long and thinner than a rail, |
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He was faster than a Copperhead and he weren't afraid of hell, |
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He turned 18 in the Parish courthouse facin' 10 to life, |
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about some altercation in a beer joint with a knife, |
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He said judge, I mean "Your Honor" I hope you'll understand, |
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but if it happened here today I think I'd do it all again, |
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'cause you don't get up in my face, you don't call my mama names, |
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you don't whistle in my kitchen, you dont pull my big dogs chain, |
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I don't mean no disrespect but I been stubborn, all my life |
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He'd been two years in prison when his cousin Jay came down, |
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said his sister was in trouble in some far off Northern town, |
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He broke out of jail that night and left a note behind, |
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I'll see ya'll in a week or so, till then I'm hard to find, |
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He found her in a tavern up in westside Buffalo, |
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Gave her a one way ticket home and pushed her out the door, |
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Said I'm lookin for the man who done my little sister harm, |
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he's a soul destroying punk that stuck a needle in her arm, |
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and some pimp back in the corner, started makin' himself small, |
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but he grabbed him by the collar and he pushed him to the wall, |
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He said you try to run away, you gone regret it, all your life, |
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The Cajun started laughin' when the pimp pulled out a knife, |
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He said I oughtta kill ya, but I'm gonna spare your life, |
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With one sledgehammer fist he knocked him sprawlin' on the floor, |
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and then he kicked him in his forked end, and he headed for the door, |
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He walked on down the sidewalk and hit the Southern trail, |
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He went back to Louisiana and he walked into the jail, |
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He said I had some business up above the bunkie line, |
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but my debts have all been settled and I've come to do my time, |
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and I hope I didn't cause no trouble, I wasn't tryin' to run away, |
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But a feller owed me somethin' and I had to make him pay, |
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Besides, I'm kind of proud I been a coonass all my life. |