Spookie Tooth
Album: Legend of Black Waterswamp
By: Tim Warr
By: Tim Warr
Duration
4:38
Genres
Description
The first song of a trilogy about a Louisiana swamp legend. It starts and ends with a spoken intro and leads to a very southern slide dominated adventure into the backwoods of the Cajun culture. Be careful it's contagious.
Lyrics
Spoken Intro: Now there was an evil spirit that lived out there in that Black water swamp, name ol spookie tooth. Now ol spookie had come to take possession of Amos’s soul after a hundred years in the ground…that was spookies job ya see…to take the soul… Whoo… The clouds unmoved in the moonlit night The morning dew was nowhere in sight In a cold dark clearing a black man stood He knew he shouldn’t be there, he’d leave if he could Been ten years now since paw told the tail Got death out here, the air smells stale In skeeters head he heard a hummin He knew that night ol spookie tooth was coming And when you look into the midnight sky…beware...he’s here And when you look into the midnight sky…beware...he’s there It’s skeeter’s night, his reason in life To send the dead into the after life The fight was long and fought with a cost The price that he paid, the life that he lost Ol spookies hurt, got a gash in his head No life to take from the, walkin dead It’s just a legend, or so they say The swamps alive enter and pay And when you look into the midnight sky…beware...he’s here And when you look into the midnight sky…beware...he’s there Solo…. Spoken Outro: So you see boy…you gots to be real careful out there in them swamps. They say it’s just a legend. But if you listen real careful…on a stormy, stormy night…you’ll hear skeeter…callin Amos name…
