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Intro: Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
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Good-bye Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh
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Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
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My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh
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Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
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Jamba-laya and a crawfish pie and filet gumbo
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'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
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Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
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Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
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Thibo-deaux, Fontainenot, the place is buzzin'
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Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
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Dress in style and go hog wild, me oh my oh
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Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
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Jamba-laya and a crawfish pie and filet gumbo
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'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
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Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
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Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
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Settle down, far from town, get me a pirogue
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And I'll catch all the fish in the bayou
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Swap my mon to buy Yvonne what she need-o
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Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
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Jamba-laya and a crawfish pie and filet gumbo
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'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
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Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
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Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou
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Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou