When you do I hope you go ahead and run out of there pretty quick. If you venture in there you might run across an old shack and see where there was a campfire.
WOOLEY SWAMP SONG FULL
On a full moon night if you go down there and park your car in the right spot you can hear Lucius in the woods laughing, and the screams off in the distance from those that never came back out. I can't say Charlie telling me that story didn't make me curious. I took his warning to heart and never went in there. In fact to his last days Charlie wouldn't hunt down around that swamp.Ĭharlie told me Lucius was the damn devil and I best not go around there if I didn't want to meet him or those gators. He said Lucius told him not to ever come back down there or next time the gators would have him too then just vanished. He said he looked over and Lucius was sitting beside him in the truck still laughing. The old man said "They came for my money and shine, but the gators gottem now." Charlie said he let out a laugh that made your hair turn white and that's all they needed to see.Ĭharlie said they got out of there so fast he didn't even know if they left anyone till they got to the end of the road. He took that bottle of Jack and turned it up and said so you boys come for my money, or my shine?" Charlie said the woods got real dark and you could hear screams coming from all around them.
the old man was sitting right there and had a gaze locked on every one of us. "That's when we noticed we had one more feller sitting with us than what we came with. Hell I could run my hand through the flames and they were cold to the touch." Won't like the fire had gone out, there was flames 3 feet high off the thing, but it was blue flames like you'd see burning off a good jar of moonshine. Must have been out there for awhile just having a good ol time when we noticed the fire had turned blue and is was gettin pretty damn cold. "We went out there, sat around, even built a little fire and broke out the bottle of Jack. He could tell a story and keep you glued better than any T.V. That's when he liked to dig up his money." I held on to every word while Charlie spoke. " Lucius walked when the full moon was out.
"You gotta go when the moon is full" he to told me. There was an old shack back up in the woods where Lucius lived and they knew where it was, so with some liquor and flashlights they went to see if the old man would come around. So he got bold and him and a few of his friends went out one night looking. When he got older he thought it was told to keep the kids from venturing in the swamp and running up on a moonshiner or maybe a gator. The song came from a story he was told as a child. Charlie very much loved to hunt and he came down every year to bag him a buck or two. The old man himself sat down one evening after we had been out hunting and told me the story of where that song came from. Truth is that old man still walks that swamp protecting his still and his money. If you listen to the song it will tell you the rest. Most of those old moonshiner's liked to bury their money in Mason jars so the law wouldn't get their stash and neither would some of the more desperate people looking to make a quick buck. That's where they made their spirits, and some like Lucius Clay was said to have left his spirit right there. Now it's been said a many moonshiners called the ol' swamp home. Wooley swamp is where the creek feeds in to. that's an old creek that used to be a popular fishing hole about 12 miles west of Elizabethtown. He even mentions Carver's creek in it if you listen. So you can imagine that these creepy woods around here influenced his music.
You may know the story told in the Charlie Daniels song legend of Wooley Swamp, well you maybe surprised he's from this little town I call home.
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