Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - Crocodile Man lyrics

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 a 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 Well I 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 Wrestled me a gator up in Omaha city Did me another down in new orleans Tangled with the barker, run off with a 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, my 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 Oh lord have mercy on the crocodile man Lord have mercy on the crocodile man Lord have mercy on the crocodile man Lord have mercy on the crocodile man