Tono: A
Introducción:
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Out on a shrimp boat I just dropped the net
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When the wind she come to blowin' whizzin' bad all to get
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I look south east and golly me what I see
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A black thundercloud with them fuzzy eyebrows
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Come a lookin' direct towards boudleaux and me
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I turned to boudleaux and me I said
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Put the sugar to bed put the sugar to bed
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Lock up the coffee in the coffee pot
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Put the flour in your pillow cause it's all we got
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Hang the lantern from the ceiling and watch your head
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Ho boudleaux put the sugar to bed boudleaux put the sugar to bed
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Well the sky she get dark and then she turn dark black
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I yell she gonna blow one right out of the almanac
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A big raindrop smacked me right on the ear
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And I hollered hey boudleaux but the way the wind blow
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He just as soon be deaf there wasn't no how to hear
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I try to call to boudleaux but slid instead
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Then me and boudleaux put the sugar to bed
Solo
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Well the ends of that shrimpin' boat was switchin' around
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She turned sideways and inners and outers and upside down
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The water come in tryin' to drown the both of us
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The closet top open and the shillet went a flyin' me I hit my head and kinda
cuss
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But most of all I frowned when she calm that I said
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Put the sugar to bed put the sugar to bed
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Ain't nothin' dry but my railroad watch the salt got soggy but we still can budge
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We built a fire for the coffee and we chicory fed
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Cause me and boudleaux put the sugar to bed
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Me and boudleaux put the sugar to bed