Bottomless Well

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
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 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