Amos Moses by Jerry Reed


chord diagrams:
A- (x02220@1)0 0 2 2 2 0
B- (x2444x@1)x 2 4 4 4 2
D7- (xx0212@1)x 0 0 2 1 2
E7- (020130@1)0 2 0 1 0 0
A7- (x02020@1)x 0 2 2 2 3

The strumming pattern is kinda hard to get, but listen to the song and play around 
and you'll have it in no time.


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Yeah! Here comes Amos! (that's during the final bit of the intro)

     ANow (x02220@1)Amos moses was a cajon
      B (x2444x@1)He lived by himself in the swamp.
   D7He (xx0212@1)hunted alligator for a livin'
  D7Just (xx0212@1)knock 'em in the head with a stump.

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The Lousisana law gonna get you, Amos!(during the riff)
It ain't legal huntin' alligator down in the swamp, boy!

   AWell, (x02220@1)everybody blamed his old man
    B (x2444x@1)               D7For (xx0212@1)makin' him mean as a snake.
   D7When (xx0212@1)Amos Moses was a boy,
                                      D7 (xx0212@1)His Daddy would use his for alligator bait.

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Tie a rope around his waist and throw him in the swamp!
Aliigator bait in the   Lousisana bayou

       E7 (020130@1)               D7 (xx0212@1)                      A7About (x02020@1)forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Lousisiana
      E7 (020130@1)                D7 (xx0212@1)                     A7Lived (x02020@1)a man called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Anna.
            E7 (020130@1)                     C (x32010@1)               D7Well, (xx0212@1)they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries.

(Haven't quite gotten this riff yet, but will post as soon as I get it)
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Named him after a man of the cloth,
Called him Amos Moses.

   ANow (x02220@1)all the folks around south Louisiana
      BSaid (x2444x@1)Amos was a hell of a man.
        D7He (xx0212@1)could trap the biggest,
   D7The (xx0212@1)meanest alligator,
        D7And (xx0212@1)just use one hand.

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That's all he got left cuz the alligator bit it!
Left arm gone clean up to the elbow!

           AWell, (x02220@1)the Sheriff got wind that Amos
             BWas (x2444x@1)in the swamp tracking alligator skin.
        D7So (xx0212@1)he snuck in the swamp, gonna get the boy.
But he never come out again.

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Well, I wonder where the Louisiana Sheriff went to?
You can sure get lost in the Louisiana Bayou!

           E7 (020130@1)                           D7 (xx0212@1)        A7About (x02020@1)forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Lousisiana
           E7 (020130@1)                           D7 (xx0212@1)     A7Lived (x02020@1)a cat called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Anna.
   E7 (020130@1)                    C (x32010@1)                 D7Well, (xx0212@1)they raised up a son who could eat up his weight in groceries.

(once again there's the part I don't know yet. Just using the original 
doesn't sound too bad though, and it does fade back
 into it so you should be good)
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Named him after a man of the cloth,
Called him Amos Moses.
Set out on 'em Amos.
Make it count, Son!

          E7 (020130@1)                            D7 (xx0212@1)       A7About (x02020@1)forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodeaux, Lousisiana...
          E7 (020130@1)                           D7 (xx0212@1)     A7Lived (x02020@1)a cat called Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Anna.