Tuning: E A D G B E

Louisiana Man:Ricky Nelson. Album - Bright Lights And Country Music - on ACE Records in 1966. INTRO: Dbm D A D #1.

^DAt first mom and papa called their little boy, Ned.

They raised him on the banks of a riverbed.

^DA houseboat tied to a big tall tree, a home for my mama and my papa and me. ^DThe clock strikes three papa jumps to his feet, already mama's cooking papa ^Asomethin' to ^Deat. ^DAt half past, papa he's a ready to go, he jumps in his pirogue headed ^Adown the ^Dbayou.

CHORUS:

He's got ^Gfishin' lines strung across the Louisiana River..gotta catch a big fish for ^Dus to ^Geat. ^GHe's settin' his traps, catchin' anything he can. ^GGotta make a livin', he's a Louisiana man. Gotta make a livin', he's a ^DLouisiana ^Gman.

#2.

^DMuskrat hides hangin' by the dozen, even got a little baby ^Amuskrat ^Dcousin. ^DGot 'em out dryin' in the hot, hot sun, tomorrow

Papa's gonna turn 'em into mon. INTERLUDE: D A D..D A D #3.

^DThey call mama Rita and my daddy Jack, my little baby brother on the floor, that's Mac. ^DRed and Len are the family twins, big brother Ed's

on the bayou fishin'. #4.

^DOn the river floats papa's great big boat, that's how me and papa go ^Ainto ^Dtown. ^DIt takes every bit of a night and day to even reach the place where the ^Apeople ^Dstay.

#5.

^GI can hardly wait tomorrow comes around, that's the day my Poppa takes the ^Dfurs to ^Gtown. ^GPapa promised me that I could go, he even let me see a ^Dcowboy ^Gshow. ^GI saw the ^Dcowboys and Indians for the first time, then. I told my Papa, got to ^Ago a^Dgain. ^DPapa said, son, we got lines to run, we'll come back again cause there's ^Awork to be ^Ddone.

INTERLUDE: D A D..D A D CHORUS:

OUTRO:

^GGotta make a livin', he's a Louisiana man. Gotta make a livin', he's a ^DLouisiana ^Gman.

......D A D..D A D.......... A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.

Ricky Nelson - Louisana man