Drop D5 Tuning 
 

You get that bass note sound by pulling down on the 3rd fret on the  
E5 string to open/ Remember to be in Drop D5 tuning/ 
 
D5                        C5  
Black water Hattie lived back in the swamp 
          G5                      D5 
Where the strange green reptiles crawl 
D5                          C5 
Snakes hang thick from the cypress trees 
     G5                       D5 
Like sausage on a smokehouse wall 
          D5                     C5 
Where the swamp is alive with a thousand eyes 
                        G5 
An all of them watching you 
     D5                C5 
Stay off the track to Hatties Shack  
       G5                   D5  
In the back of the Black Bayou 
 

D5                    C5 
Way up the road from Hattie's Shack 
       G5                    F5   D5  
Lies a sleepy little Okeechobee town 
D5                   C5                
Talk of swamp witch Hattie lock you  
G5               F5  D5    
In when the sun go down 
D5                          G5 
Rumors of what she'd done, rumors of what she'd do 
     D5                      C5  
Kept folks off the track of Hattie's shack 
       G5                 F5 D5   
In the back of the Black Bayou 
 
 
One day brought the rain and the rain stayed on 
And the swamp water overflowed 
Skeeters and the fever grabbed the town like a fist 
Doctor Jackson was the first to go 
Some say the plague was-a brought by Hattie, there was talk of a hangin' too  
But the talk got shackled by the howls and the cackles 
From the bowels of the Black bayou 
 
Early one morn 'tween dark and dawn  
When shadows filled the sky 
There came an unseen caller  
On a town where road run dry 
You'd swear there was found a big black round, vat full of gurgling brew 
Whispering sounds as the folk gathered round 
It came from the Black Bayou 
 
 
There ain't much pride when you're trapped inside 
A slowly sinkin' ship 
Scooped up the liquid deep and green 
And the whole town took a sip 
Fever went away and the very next day the skies again were blue 
Lets thank old Hattie for savin' our town 
Well fetch her from the Black Bayou 
 
Party of ten of the towns best men  
headed for Hattie's Shack 
Said Swamp Witch magic was useful and good 
And they're gonna bring Hattie back 
Never found Hattie and they never found the shack 
Never made the trip back in 
There was a parchment note they found tacked to a stump  
Said don't come lookin' again