Key: C
Introduction:
C G
Good-bye Joe, he gotta go, me oh, my oh
G7 C
He gotta go pull the pirogue down the bayou
G
Here's Yvonne sweetest one, me oh, my oh
G7 C
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
C G
Thibodeau, Fontainbleau, the place is buzzin'
G7 C
Kin folk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
G
Dressed in style, they go hog wild, me oh, my oh
G7 C
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
C G
Jumbayla crawfish pie filet gumbo
G7 C
For tonight I'm gonna see my me-cher a me oh
G
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar, and be gay oh
G7 C
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
C G
Settle down far from town get him in a pirogue,
G7 C
And he'll catch all the fish in the bayou.
G
Swap his mun to by Yvonne what she need-oh,
G7 C
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou