Cotton Mouth River - Jim Croce

Well I know that I shouldn’t have done it

I know it just wasn’t right

Cause they got me back up to the cotton mouth river

And I can’t cross late at night

I hear there’s lots of stories told about the cotton mouth river

They tell them time and again

About the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight

And never were heard from again

If I had all my live to live over

I’d have gone to work that day

Instead of going into town

And shooting him down

For a thing I never heard him say

I hear there’s lots of stories told about the cotton mouth river

They tell them time and again

About the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight

And never were heard from again

Well I just made it through the cane break

And I got one foot in the mud

I can hear the hounds obeying but the snake

Around my ankles telling me my running days are done

I hear there’s lots of stories told about the cotton mouth river

They tell them time and again

About the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight

And never were heard from again

I hear there’s lots of stories told about the cotton mouth river

They tell them time and again

About the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight

And never were heard from again