Ko-ko Joe

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Way up in Appaloosa County there's a place called Ko-ko ridge

Sets a right on the bend on the Etowah River

Where the water washed away the bridge

Cotton Mouth Country a river rats knee high

Way up around the back border lived a man that the river folks talked about

They said you better stay away from Ko-ko Joe cause he's crazy no account

Ko-ko Joe they called him the Etowah River swamp rat and folks despised him

Ko-ko Joe he was an awfuly peculiar man the river was his only friend

And the folks didn't understand the man Ko-ko Joe

He eat monkey meat'n mashed potatoes he drunka brew called the Mojo Claw

that he beat outta roots from ol' dead stumps on the banks of the Etowah

Made him walk a little funny made his breath smell funky

Well he never came across the river cause the folks didn't like him in town

They said his hair was long his clothes were dirty they didn't want him hanging around

Ko-ko Joe they called him...

Well it happened a year ago Sunday and they still talk about it today

How the dam broke loose on the Etowah River nearly washed everybody away

Son the river water risin' washing up all the bushes

Well the headlines read how a mother said my son would have lost his life

But he was pulled from the mud in the Etowah River by the man y'all all despise

Ko-ko Joe they called him...