Songs of my Youth 13--The Legend of Wooley Swamp Traditional Cache
Songs of my Youth 13--The Legend of Wooley Swamp
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Charlie Daniels took me down to Georgia with the Devil. He took me to L.A. via Omaha. He told me to leave long haired country boys alone. He assured me that the south was indeed going to do it again. And he also spun a good ghost story, thus this next addition to my Songs of my Youth series of caches. The Legend of Wooley Swamp weaves a tale of a greedy old man named Lucius Clay who lived in the Wooley Swamp way back in Booger Woods! Here is just a bit of this great tale:
Cable boys was white trash
They lived over on Carver's Creek.
They were mean as a snake
And sneaky as a cat
And belligerent when they'd speak.
One night the oldest brother said,
"Y'all meet me at the Wooley Swamp later
We'll take old Lucius's money
and we'll feed him to the alligators."
They found the old man out in the back
With a shovel in his hand,
Thirteen rusty mason jars
was just dug up out of the sand.
And they all went crazy
And they beat the old man,
And they picked him up off of the ground.
Threw him in the swamp
And stood there and laughed
As the black water sucked him down.
Then they turned around
And went back to the shack
And picked up the money and ran.
They hadn't gone nowhere
When they realized
They were running in quicksand.
And they struggled and they screamed
But they couldn't get away
And just before they went under
They could hear that old man laughing
In a voice as loud as thunder.
And that's been fifty years ago
And you can go by there yet.
There's a spot in the yard
In the back of that shack
Where the ground is always wet.
And on summer nights
If the moon is right
Down by the that dark footpath,
You can hear three young men screaming.
You can hear one old man laugh.
You are searching for a nano container that really should be an easy park and grab. Please be aware of muggles this can be a busy area at times. Have fun and remember: If you ever go back in the Wooley Swamp well you better not go at night, there's thing out there in the middle of them woods that will make a strong man die from fright!!
Congrats to Payneboys for FTF!!
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Jung'f gung fvta fnl? Pnoyr?
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