Alligator

Way down upon the Suwannee lies the Cove Restaurant Where the waitresses smoke Salems and the steak is chicken fried And if you step out by the river, you might meet one of the locals A giant alligator with a healthy appetite He's seventeen feet long with a hide as black as midnight Knobbled and pebbled like a wet gravel drive His eyes shine in dark like locomotive headlights He can gobble up a cave diver in two or three bites So don't you go a'chasing that old alligator That lives in the brown water beneath the Suwannee Cove He'll grab you by the ankle and pull you down under It'll happen real fast and he will eat you real slow William Robert Fletcher was the county's greatest hunter He bought a bigger boat each year to hold them gators he shot He said I'm gonna catch that reptile and make him into footwear Well his hat was found a-floatin but Billy Bob was not So don't you go a'chasing that old alligator That lives in the brown water beneath the Suwannee Cove He'll grab you by the ankle and pull you down under It'll happen real fast and he will eat you real slow There was a matron from Nantucket who scoffed at the warnings As she sipped banana daquiris and sent back her cup She said "I'm gonna take his picture for my internet boyfriend" But the last her waitress saw of her was bubbles coming up So don't you go a'chasing that old alligator That lives in the brown water beneath the Suwannee Cove He'll grab you by the ankle and pull you down under It'll happen real fast and he will eat you real slow