Cotton Mouth River - Jim Croce

Well I know that I shouldn’t have done it
I know that it just wasn’t right
Cause it got me backed up to the cotton mouth river
And I can’t cross late at night

Yeah there’s lots of stories told about the cotton mouth river
They tell them time and again
About them men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
And never were heard from again

If I had my life 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

Yeah there’s lots of stories told about the cotton mouth river
They tell them time and again
About them men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
And never was 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

Yeah there’s lots of stories told about the cotton mouth river
They tell them time and again
About them men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
And never was heard from again
Yeah there’s lots of stories told about the cotton mouth river
They tell them time and again
About them men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
And never were heard from again