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At birth mom and papa called their little boy Ned |
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Raised him on the banks of a river bed |
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Houseboat tied to a big tall tree |
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Home for my papa and my mama and me |
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The clock strikes three papa jumps to his feet |
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Already mama's cooking papa something to eat |
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At half past papa he's ready to go |
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Jumps in his pirogue headed down the bayou |
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He's got fishing lines strung across Louisiana Rivers |
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Gotta catch a big fish for us to eat |
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Setting traps in the swamp catching anything he can |
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Gotta make a living he's a Louisiana man |
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Gotta make a living he's a Louisiana man |
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Muskrat hides hanging by the dozens |
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Even got a lady mink a muskrat's cousin |
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Got 'em out drying in the hot hot sun |
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Tomorrow papa's gonna turn 'em into money |
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They call mama Rita and my daddy Jack |
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My little baby brother on the floor that's Mack |
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Bren and Lin are the family twins |
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Big brother Ed's on the bayou fishing |
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On the river floats papa's great big boat |
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And that's how my papa goes into town |
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Takes him every bit of a night and a day |
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To even reach a place where the people stay |
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But I can hardly wait until tomorrow comes around |
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That's the day my papa takes furs to town |
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Papa promised me that I could go |
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He'd even let me see a big cowboy show |
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Cowboys and Indians for the first time then |
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I told my papa I've gotta go again |
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Papa said "Son we've got lines to run |
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We'll come back but now there's work to be done" |
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He's got fishing lines strung across the Louisiana Rivers |
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Gotta catch a big fish for us to eat |
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Setting traps in the swamp catching anything he can |
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Gotta make a living he's a Louisiana man |
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Gotta make a living he's a Louisiana man |
