Atchafalayan Death Waltz

Well I went to the water to fetch me a drink

And when I stooped down I felt my heart sink

I felt the sea tremble, ripple and rise

Cause there at the surface and to my surprise

Well I dare never joke you or tell you no lie

But staring at me was two big bloodshot eyes

Well they came to me slowly, each eye two miles wide

And when he poked out his head it blocked out the sky

So a black sky got blacker, and it rained a red blood

And the lowlands and the valleys all started to flood;

But just as the flood line come up to my chin

I felt his sharp claws go into my skin

And so clenched in his fist, he squeezed and he pulled

And he laughed as my eyes popped out of my skull

Well I begged him for mercy and I prayed to the son

For the good lord to forgive all the bad things I'd done

But as I implored him it rang clear as a bell

That this big ugly devil fucker was the good lord himself

So he raised me up slowly above the black clouds

And threw my limp body into his big mouth

Well his breath was a bastard and his tongue curled and clung

As he shredded my skin and he plucked out my lungs

Well he chewed and he grinded, such pain I'd not known

And he swallowed my flesh and he spit out my bones