This chord progression isone of the basic 3-chord ones.
I / / / | / / / / |
I / / / | V / / / |
I / I7 / | IV / / / |
I / V / | I / / / |
in G: G / | / / | / / | D / |
G G7 | C / | G D | G / |
You get a line and I'll get a pole, honey.
You get a line and I'll get a pole, babe.
You get a line and I'll get a pole, we'll go down to the crawdad hole.
Honey, sugar baby mine.
Get up old man you slept too late, honey.
Get up old man you slept too late, babe.
Get up old man you slept too late, last piece of crawdad's on your
plate.
Honey, sugar baby mine.
Get up old woman you slept too late, honey.
Get up old woman you slept too late, babe.
Get up old woman you slept too late, crawdad man's done passed your
gate.
Honey, sugar baby mine.
I saw a man with a pack on his back, ...
packing all the crawdads he could pack ...
I heard the duck say to the drake, ...
there ain't no crawdads in this lake ...
What you gonna do when the lake goes dry ...
Sit on the bank and watch the crawdads die...
What you gonna do when the crawdads die ...
Sit on the bank until I cry ...