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Testo Bottomless Well - Bobby Bare

Testo della canzone Bottomless Well (Bobby Bare), tratta dall'album Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends And Lies (And More)

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 in his big white wicker rocker

Eatin' his candy coated cashews, sippin' orange lemonade

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

He's dozin' in the green catalpa shade

Lord. I swear that Jesse Langtree's got it made

Oh, let's hear it for Jesse now

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

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

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Writer(s): Shel Silverstein
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