Bottomless Well — текст песни (Bobby Bare)

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