Alligator Bait

Down in the Bayou

Put on your swamp boots, baby

We goin' for a ride

Down by Black Bayou

Bring your camera, baby, we might, might see an alligator or crocodile

I remember the first time my Papa took me down Black Bayou

Had bought me a pair of hip boots

Well, we was out there walkin' around across on a log, and uh

I didn't know anything and uh, I stepped on a log and the log moved

And I didn't know what to do, so my Grandpa said

"Boy, you stepped on a alligator back"

Lotta kids got ate like that

I didn't know no better, I was just a kid

But this low down thing that my Grandpa did

He know I know that he loved me, he wouldn't want me to get hurt

But what he did that day was mistake 'cause he used me for alligator bait

When the gator moved, he shot the gun

He say, "Boy, you did good"

So confusin', I was just a lad

But I was old enough to get mad, and

I said, "I'm going home and tell my Daddy what you did"

When I got home, I told my Daddy what happened

And he just laughed, laughed, laughed

He say, "Boy, the thing Grandpa did to you

When I was a little lad, he did to me too"

I ain't goin' back in the jungle

You can't get me back to the swamp

Far as I'm gon' go is to that oak tree stump

That's where they skinned the gator

That's where we all sit there and ate her

And they laughed, they said "We had a whole lot of fun"

But I'm like, "You wouldn't've had it if I'd known what y'all were doin'"

So, uh, I ain't goin' back

I just thought I'd tell you that

Alligator bait

Alligator bait

I coulda got ate

They used me for alligator bait

That's why I don't hunt today

Somebody shoulda told me