Swamp Witch

Tabbed By Larry Mofle 
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10/17/2004 
 
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. 
 
G - 5X0003 
 
D                        C  
Black water Hattie lived back in the swamp 
          G                      D 
Where the strange green reptiles crawl 
D                          C 
Snakes hang thick from the cypress trees 
     G                       D 
Like sausage on a smokehouse wall 
          D                     C 
Where the swamp is alive with a 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 
       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