Put the Sugar to Bed

Out on a shrimp boat I just dropped the net

When the wind she come to blowin' whizzin' bad all to get

I look south east and golly me what I see

A black thundercloud with them fuzzy eyebrows

Come a lookin' direct towards Boudleaux and me

I turned to Boudleaux and me I said

Put the sugar to bed put the sugar to bed

Lock up the coffee in the coffee pot

Put the flour in your pillow cause it's all we got

Hang the lantern from the ceiling and watch your head

Ho Boudleaux put the sugar to bed Boudleaux put the sugar to bed

Well the sky she get dark and then she turn dark black

I yell she gonna blow one right out of the Almanac

A big raindrop smacked me right on the ear

And I hollered hey Boudleaux but the way the wind blow

He just as soon be deaf there wasn't no how to hear

I try to call to Boudleaux but slid instead

Then me and Boudleaux put the sugar to bed

Well the ends of that shrimpin' boat was switchin' around

She turned sideways and inners and outers and upside down

The water come in tryin' to drown the both of us

The closet top open and the shillet went a flyin' me I hit my head and kinda cuss

But most of all I frowned when she calm that I said

Put the sugar to bed put the sugar to bed

Ain't nothin' dry but my railroad watch the salt got soggy but we still can budge

We built a fire for the coffee and we chicory fed

Cause me and Boudleaux put the sugar to bed

Me and Boudleaux put the sugar to bed