Jerry Reed - Amos Moses Lyrics

My fave karaoke song. I used to swim with Gators @ 12 yrs old like a dork in the canal by my house. Bored. Fearless. Stupid. Folks didn't say a word. Just when to be home for dinner.

It gets me every time

somebody put this up in braille so the 1500 or so deaf folk can remove their dislikes.

Now I know where Les Claypool got his inspiration from.

Lafayette Louisiana

GTA San Andreas memories lol

This song was on the radio all the time when I was young and everyone liked it.

RIP Jerry we need you back.

I hope i dont get hate for this, but i like the Primus version more.

Why would we hate you're own opinion ?

Good song

This was my Jam in San Andreas. By God, were those some good times.

Primus does one hell of a cover of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrdc0oaeH04

if this song dont put the lord into you nothing will

All these avatars, so explain America 2020

Using black babies for Alligator bait...0:37

This song is my new favorite song

If you like this your going to love "Polk Salad Annie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCSsVvlj6YA

Make Movie on Amos Moses!!!

When country was country instead of the crap they play today !!

playing along to this on my 71 Harmony Archtop rn! Shit bangs!

Is there any kid in the 60's America that didn't sing this song one time or another walking to school?

well I wonder where that Louisiana sheriff went to?...lol

He could eat up his weight in groceries.

Instant classic!

Go get em son

People tell me I look like a young Jerry Reed. I am okay with this

I love me some Jerry and Chet.

Ma maison ou mon nom de famille n'est pas Champagne.

Left a note of praise at PBS Facebook page for Ken Burns' latest triumph -- the eight-part series COUNTRY MUSIC: It has an infinite number of elements that have been blended down into this artless (you're not aware of the editing at all!) masterpiece. Inevitably some greats will get little or no recognition. Thought of one such -- a guitarists' guitarist, Jerry Reed -- greatest-ever composer of virtuoso pieces for guitar (Chet's favorite, 'nuff said). There is Jerry Reed -- stage right in the b&w photo of Patsy Cline next to Faron Young. Who but fellow finger-pickers would recognize that smiling face? But to include mention of Jerry Reed would be to invite dozens of us to say "Why not mention (fill-in-the-blank).

A fellow guitarist here, Michael Hossler says the father of finger-style guitar Merle Travis was 'short changed.' I said in reply You just reminded me of Chet Atkins' favorite guitarist/composer Jerry Reed. There was a pianist/composer of my Dad's generation in the 1930s -- Zez Confrey -- who wrote convoluted melodies -- totally memorable, yet impossible to whistle or hum like Dizzy Fingers and Kitten on the Keys. Jerry, I told my Dad was his equivalent on guitar. His virtuoso pieces are still being mastered by all of today's 'best-since-Chet' finger-pickers, America's Doyle Dykes and Australia's Tommy Emmanuel. Plus -- Jerry Reed brought funk to Country (think AMOS MOSES) not really heard from again until Dolly recorded her TWO DOORS DOWN.


Even before Stevie Wonder's SUPERSTITION, Jerry Reed was introducing funk to delighted country audiences. This one -- AMOS MOSES -- crossed over to the pop charts with success. This upload to YouTube has nearly nine million "views" [!] Thanks, Folsom90 for sharing.


PS Among the comments below is one from a kindred spirit in France who said: Reminds me of really early DIRE STRAIGHTS. I replied: "One of Mark ("Dire Straights") Knopfler's heroes! Reminds me, in turn, that the only time John Lennon and Bob Dylan were sitting in an audience, side-by-side together was for a performance by Jerry Reed. All of which is to say, Chet Atkins' favorite picker/composer was arguably the greatest.


Favorite ongoing anecdote: Jerry would forget his own compositions all-too-quickly and would play them immediately for Chet. I.e. No Chet? No classic Jerry Reed instrumentals! Jerry's best are still being played and analyzed by the world's greatest-living finger-pickers like Doyle Dykes (only guitarist to play at Chet's memorial service at the Ryman Auditorium) and Australia's Tommy Emmanuel. Oh yes, favorite anecdote: A guitarist friend once played a song for Jerry who said, "Who wrote that?" "YOU did!"

Jerry Reeds' joy comes thru his music! Great country chicken picker & performer !

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Padre lo de la canción!!
Le dice la hija al padre.

One of my earliest memories is with my grandma and she was jamming this. RIP granny

My dad named our dog Amos Moses when I was a kid.

Eastbound & Down
Smokey & the Bandit

You can guess what my husband’s nickname is........

Back when music was worth listening to.........

Just listen to that geetarr.playing

You lift my heart up when the rest of me is down

Adelante Juan Ignacio.

LA VIDA MODERNA ES ESCUCHAR LA CANCION DE CABECERA DEL PPROGRAMA 10h SEGUIDAS

Grand Thef Auto?

Sit down on em Amos. Make it count son.

This is based on a true story... People used to use black babies and kids as alligator bait back on the late 1800s and early 1900s... Look it up...

Ye Hah!!!

Puro Lousiana y mochis a la verga

I get this is a San Andreas song, I love it. But I've realized how much transcendentalism this song has

GTA SAN ANDREAS brought me here !!!!

if sounds like really early dire straits style (Setting me Up from the Dire Straits album)

One of Mark ("Dire Straights") Knopfler's heroes. Reminds me that the only time John Lennon and Bob Dylan were sitting in an audience, side-by-side together was for a performance by Jerry Reed. All of which is to say, Chet Atkins' favorite picker/composer was arguably the greatest. Favorite ongoing anecdote: Jerry would forget his own compositions all-too-quickly and would play them immediately for Chet. I.e. No Chet? No classic Jerry Reed instrumentals (still being played and analyzed by the world's greatest-living finger-pickers like Doyle Dykes (only guitarist to play at Chet's memorial service at the Ryman Auditorium) and Australia's Tommy Emmanuel. Oh yes, favorite anecdote: A guitarist friend once played a song for Jerry who said, "Who wrote that?" "YOU did!"

thanks to san andres i discovered this jam.......and i love it!!!

Correction on a word in the lyrics,Amos Moses used a stob.Not a stump,as the printer states.
This is a Southern term for a gnarly stick.I don't believe yankees know what a stob is.

Love it

Moses buried after bought some land please LINE MOSES WAS OFF SHEM LINE.... ENOCH LAMECH MATHUSALA 969

The Godfather of southern rock

Jerry was a guitar genius who also had fun playing. A great, talented, under-rated entertainer.

Amos Moses: *murder's a police officer*
Everybody: WhERe'D dA LoOZIaNa ShErRiFf gO

God i love this song. GTA.

Make it count son, you young boys take a lesson here. Counting on you.

One of the best to step behind a microphone. R.I.P. Snowman & Bandit.

Southern rock

Le antiende Don Ignacio

going through tierra robada with this

Super excellent.

Amos moses natasha clark all about perls us com face book live gator lady.

Small in the saddle? Heres some tunes to whistle on a lonely night!

song's so damn funny

The good ole days🐍🐊

I don't like how my friends call me Mooch....and yet they won't let me leave cause they so kind to me...most times...but sometimes they ain't...and after nights like that...I don't feel like being to nice either....the thangs that go through my mind in my shed out back afterwards....boi I'm big... I should apply for OU football...idk..any advice would be appreciated. Thank ye.

"YAEAH...HERE COME AMOS!!"
This sing is way too short!!
Love this!! 0:43. "Ahaha!!"

I love it when he says left arm gone clean up to the elbow

Yeah, here comes Amos
Now Amos Moses was a Cajun
He lived by himself in the swamp
He hunted alligator for a living
He'd just knock them in the head with a stump
The Louisiana law gonna get you, Amos
It ain't legal hunting alligator down in the swamp, boy
Now everyone blamed his old man
For making him mean as a snake
When Amos Moses was a boy
His daddy would use him for alligator bait
Tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp
Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou
About forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana
Lived a man called Doc Mills South and his pretty wife Hannah
Well, they raised up a son that could eat up his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth
Called him Amos Moses, yeah
Now the folks around south Louisiana
Said Amos was a hell of a man
He could trap the biggest, the meanest alligator
And he'd just use one hand
That's all he got left 'cause an alligator bit it
Left arm gone clear up to the elbow
Well the sheriff caught wind that Amos was in the swamp trapping alligator skin
So he snuck in the swamp gonna get the boy
But he never come out again
Well I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to
Well you can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou
About forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana
Lived a cat called Doc Mills South and his pretty wife Hannah
Well, they raised up a son that could eat up his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth
Called him Amos Moses
Sit down on 'em Amos!
Make it count son
About forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana
Lived a man called Doc Mills South and his pretty wife Hannah

One of the best songs from GTA SA

My pop use to call me Amos Moses because he felt I was eating my weight in groceries. It was shorted to just Amos once I got the message.

Who's listening in October 2019🎹🎸🐧🙋‍♂️?

Hell yeah!

Great song

Kentucky mike still on it

Gator Hogg it’s December

Make it count, Son!

True GTA classic, only good as joke. Fuck country music lol, but this is hillarious.

Fuck you lol

Take your best friend's name, who is from LA and then insert name, let hilarity ensure!
#ArmyVeteransAreSillyCreatures

This song always makes me thirsty......ole moonshine !!!!!!

Todays' Country ain't got nothin' on this. Classic!!

Sounds like anus

About 45 " southeast of Thibodaux, LA....Ha Ha Ha.....Love it!

Who else is here because of GTA San Andreas?

Classic. Just classic.

Goddamn right! Never get music like this ever again.

Really? Com on now. !

The GTA San Andreas nostalgia is real! So many back woods shenanigans committed with this song blaring in the background.

"well I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to?... haha"

Love this song

Wish I could have played music with you before you last cousin

Just look up who was a great gutair player. ... Glen Campbell, Jerry Reed, Roy Clark.

tied a rope around his face....* called him Amos Moses... ;-)

This is its own genre and before its time

HERE COMES AAAAANUS

THIS IS MARK SPILLER

Amos Moses was hilarious, great song!

Goddamn i miss Mr. Jerry Reed......"Play it Boy"

1.4 thousand people are about to get lost in the Louisiana bayou.

I have heard of some Law men.going to those Swamp an never coming out.

Racist song

@southsidepatrol 67 she believes that urban legend that black babies were used as alligator bait. Even though the song says that Amos Moses was Cajun.