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Songs:Crocodile Man (3595)
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©2000, Dave Carter/Dave Carter Music (BMI) mama she raised me on riddles and trances fatback, channel-cat, lily-white lies rocked my cradle in a jimmy-crack fancy never knew papa and i never asked why well, now, people say papa wasn't no-account anyway people say papa was rollin' stone well i turned twenty on the waccamaw throughway hitching up river in the dark alone sleepin' with a stranger in a no-name town thanksgiving dinner at the top hat lounge christmas eve at the fantasy tan lord have mercy on the crocodile man lord have mercy on the crocodile man hooked up with a carny little outta memphis slavin' in a sideshow, pennies in a jar beetle-eyed jokers and hicktown princes rhinestone rubies and rubber cigars wrassled me a gator up in omaha city did me another down in new orleans tangled with the barker, run off with the kitty crawled the mississippi and i got away clean sleepin' with a stranger in a no-name town thanksgiving dinner at the top hat lounge christmas eve at the fantasy tan lord have mercy on the crocodile man lord have mercy on the crocodile man underneath the levee in a cat-tail thicket hidden in the shadow of a shady grove there's a thatched roof risin' from a poke fence picket white smoke billows from a kettle-black stove inside the house is the hall of mirrors inside the mirror is the temple of sin and inside the temple is the face of mama and mama she know just where i been yeah, mama know exactly where her bad boy been sleepin' with a stranger in a no-name town thanksgiving dinner at the top hat lounge christmas eve at the fantasy tan lord have mercy on the crocodile man lord have mercy on the crocodile man
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 | Dance 548 items |
 | Live 1,957 items |
 | Folk 5,703 items |
 | Vocal duo 726 items |
 | Acoustic guitar 9,313 items |
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on the album Live At The Rocky Mtn. Folk Fest (Aug 19, 2001)
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Categories: Dance | Live | Folk | Vocal duo | Acoustic guitar
