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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 |
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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 |
