Swamp Witch

Drop D Tuning

You get that bass note sound by 
pulling down on the 3rd fret on the
E string to open. Remember to be in 
Drop D tuning.


D                        C
Black water Hattie lived back in the
 swamp
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Where the strange green reptiles 
 D
crawl
D                          C
Snakes hang thick from the cypress 
trees
     G                       D
Like sausage on a smokehouse wall
          D                    
Where the swamp is alive with a 
 C
thousand eyes
                        G
An all of them watching you
     D                C
Stay off the track to Hatties Shack
       G                   D
In the back of the Black Bayou

D                    C
Way up the road from Hattie's Shack
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       G                    F   D
Lies a sleepy little Okeechobee town
D                   C
Talk of swamp witch Hattie lock you
G               F  D
In when the sun go down
D                          G
Rumors of what she'd done, rumors of
 what she'd do
     D                      C
Kept folks off the track of Hattie's
 shack
       G                 F D
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