JERRY REED Amos Moses guitar tab

Amos Moses by Jerry Reed

JERRY REED - Amos Moses guitar tab 

Date: 12/20/00; 1:36:27 AM
From: "Herriman Larry" <[email protected]>
Subject: Amos Moses by Cross Canadian Ragweed

Amos Moses
Written By Jerry Reed
As recorded by Cross Canadian Ragweed
CD: Live & Loud at the Wormy Dog
Transcribed by Larry Herriman

This song is pretty easy to play once you get the main riff down. 
e----------------------------------------|
B----------------------------------------|
G----------------------------------------|
D----2-2--------22--2--------2-2---------|
A----0-0-3P0----00--0-3P0----0-0-3P0---0-|
E--3---------3------------3----------3---|

You also need to use a lot of alternate picking and up and down strumming to
get the right sound.

Intro  (COUNTS OFF BY STRUMMING MUTED STRINGS)
/

| e----------------------------------------|---------------||
| B----------------------------------------|--3-3----3-----||
| G----------------------------------------|--2-2----2-----||
| D----2-2--------22--2--------2-2---------|--0-0----0-----||
| A----0-0-3P0----00--0-3P0----0-0-3P0---0-|---------------|| 
| E--3---------3------------3----------3---|---------------||  
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|    Play Twice.                      |
e----------------------------------------|---------------||	   Band
enters
| B----------------------------------------|--3-3----------||	   Second
time
| G----------------------------------------|--2-2----------||  /
| D----2-2--------22--2--------2-2---------|--0-0----------|| /
| A----0-0-3P0----00--0-3P0----0-0-3P0---0-|---------------||/
| E--3---------3------------3----------3---|---------------||

/
	A					 Bm
D	
Now Amos Moses was a Cajun  He lived by his self in the swamp
	
G*
He hunted alligator for livin'  He just knocked em' in the head with a stump
						  
Louisiana law gonna get you Amos  (Play Riff)

It ain't legal huntin' alligators down in the swamp boy  (Play Riff)

	A					 Bm
D
Now everybody blamed his old man   For makin' him mean as a snake
	
G*
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy'd use him for alligator bait

Tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp (Play Riff) 

Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou  (Play Riff)

Chorus
	Bm				D
A		  A
  About forty-five minutes south of Thibadoux Louisiana
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B-----3-----------------3-------------------------2-----------2---|
G-----4-----------------2-------------------------2-----------2---|
D-----4-----------------0-------------------------2-----------2---|
A-----2-------------------------------------------0-----3b4---0---|
E-----------------------------------------------------------------|

	Bm				D
A		  A
Lived a cat named Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Hanna
e-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B-----3-----------------3-------------------------2-----------2---|
G-----4-----------------2-------------------------2-----------2---|
D-----4-----------------0-------------------------2-----------2---|
A-----2-------------------------------------------0-----3b4---0---|
E-----------------------------------------------------------------|

		Bm				D
Well they raised up a son that could eat up his weight in groceries
e--------------------------------------------------------------------3p2----
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B---------3-----------------3--------------------------------------------3-0
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G---------4-----------------2-----------------------------------------------
-2-|
D---------4-----------------0-----------------------------------------------
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A---------2-----------------------------------------------------------------
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E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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			    Strum quickly  ^ v ^ V
							D D D D
Named him after a man of the cloth

Called him Amos Moses  Riff 2X


	A					 Bm
D
Everybody in south Louisiana   Said Amos was a helluva man
	
G*
He could trap the biggest and meanest alligator   and just use one hand

That's all he got left cause a alligator bit it  (Play Riff)

Left arm gone clean up to the elbow  (Play Riff)

	A					 Bm
D
Well the sheriff caught wind of Amos  In the swamp trappin alligator skins
	
G*
That sheriff went lookin for Amos boy you know he never come out again
 
I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to    

You can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou   (Play Riff)

Chorus
Riff 2X      Ahhhhhhh, make it count son!
Chorus
Riff     Sonnnnnnnn!
Riff

Chords:
	EADGBE
A	x0222x
Bm	x2443x
D	xx023x
G	35xxxx  (G5 chord with the bottom four strings muted.  Rake strings
from bottom to top)



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