[ti:Louisiana Man (Re-Recorded / Remastered)]
[ar:Doug Kershaw/Elton Walker/Clifford Breaux]
[al:Cajun Golden Collection]
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[00:00.00]Louisiana Man (Re-Recorded|Remastered) - Doug Kershaw/Elton Walker/Clifford Breaux
[00:10.02]Well at birth Mom and Papa called their little boy Ned
[00:14.08]Raised him on the banks of a river bed
[00:18.21]On a houseboat tied to a big tall tree
[00:22.00]A home for my Papa and my Mama and me
[00:25.85]The clock strikes three and Papa jumps to his feet
[00:29.55]Already Mama's cooking Papa something to eat
[00:33.80]At half past Papa he's ready to go
[00:37.51]He jumps in his pirogue headed down the bayou
[00:41.04]He's got fishing lines strung across the Louisiana rivers
[00:45.58]Gotta catch a big fish for us to eat
[00:49.00]He's setting traps in the swamp catching anything he can
[00:53.01]He's gotta make a living he's a Louisiana man
[00:57.26]Gotta make a living he's a Louisiana man
[01:00.66]My muskrat hides hanging by the dozens
[01:05.06]Even got a lady mink a Muskrat's cousin
[01:08.99]Got 'em out drying in the hot hot sun
[01:12.85]Tomorrow Papa's gonna turn 'em into money
[01:32.06]Well they call my Mama Rita and my Daddy Jack
[01:36.23]Little baby brother on the floor that's Mack
[01:40.19]Bren and Lin are the family twins
[01:43.87]And big brother Ed's on the bayou fishing
[01:48.03]On the river floats Papa's great big boat
[01:51.87]That's how my Papa goes into town
[01:55.75]Takes him every bit of a night and a day
[01:59.61]To even reach a place where the people stay
[02:03.51]I can hardly wait until tomorrow comes around
[02:07.50]That's the day my Papa takes his furs to town
[02:11.42]Papa promised me that I could go
[02:15.21]He'd even let me see a cowboy show
[02:18.65]I saw the cowboys and
[02:20.25]Indians for the first time then
[02:22.91]I told my pop I've gotta go again
[02:26.93]Well Papa said son we've got lines to run
[02:30.82]We'll come back again
[02:32.32]But first there's work to be done
[02:34.43]He's got fishing lines strung across the Louisiana rivers
[02:38.82]Gotta catch a big fish for us to eat
[02:42.12]He's setting traps in the swamp catching anything he can
[02:46.19]He's gotta make a living he's a Louisiana man
[02:50.39]Gotta make a living he's a Louisiana man
[02:54.38]Gotta make a living he's a Louisiana man
[02:58.27]Gotta make a living he's a Louisiana man