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Bobby Bare - Bottomless Well lyrics



They say there he sits in his big white wicker rocker

Eatin' candy coated cashews sippin' orange lemonade

While a sweet young thing fans the flies from off his eyebrows

He's dozin' in the green catalpa shade

Lord they say that Jesse Langtree's got it made

A little bit south of the Okechobee there's a story that the swamp folks tell

About a mean old man named Jesse Langtree

And a sweet young maid and a bottomless well

That water's cold but that don't matter how deep it is no one can tell

Just drop a stone you'll never hear it splatter

It just falls down down forever in the bottomless well

Through fifteen miles of snakes and gators

With the raging fever and the trembling chills

I wandered lost through the Okechobee

And there I seen 'em sittin' there by the bottomless well

Yeah now there he sits...

(Oh let's hear it for Jesse now hey Jesse)

I asked her for a drink of water and as Jesse slept me and her we talked a spell

She said that she was his wife and daughter Lord Lord

But his heart was cold cold and dark as the bottomless well

And as he slept I bent to kiss her I heard a loud and jealous yell

Felt my head explode in darkness two big hairy arms picked me up

And dragged me to the bottomless well

I woke up in fear and trembling I was staring down into the jaws of hell

As he held me high above his shoulders

A gonna throw me down down down to the bottomless well

Now here I sit in Jesse's big white wicker rocker

Eatin' his candy coated cashews sippin' his orange lemonade

While that sweet young thing fans the flies from off my eyebrows

I'm dozin' in the green catalpa shade

Enjoying things that Jesse Langtree made oh God bless you Jesse

Now some folks say that sweet thing pushed him but I was there and I'd swear he fell

But it ain't murder cause he ain't dead cause he's still a fallin'

Goin' down down forever in the bottomless well

Goin' down down down down down bye Jesse
Songs list of album: Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends and Lies (1973)
         Title Rating
01    Lullabys, Legends and Lies lyrics Add lyrics   -
02   Paul lyrics   -
03   Marie Laveau lyrics   -
04   Daddy What If lyrics   -
05    The Wonderful Soup Stone lyrics Add lyrics   -
06   The Winner lyrics   -
07    In the Hills of Shiloh lyrics Add lyrics   -
08   She's My Ever Lovin' Machine lyrics   -
09    The Mermaid lyrics Add lyrics   -
10   Rest Awhile lyrics   -
11   Bottomless Well lyrics   -
12   True Story lyrics   -
13    Sure Hit Songwriters Pen lyrics Add lyrics   -
14   Rosalie's Good Eats Cafe lyrics   -
 

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