Put The Sugar To Bed

Out on a shrimp boat I just dropped the net
When the wind she come to blowing
Whizzing bad all to get
I look south east and golly me what I see
A black thundercloud with them fuzzy eyebrows
Come a looking 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
Because 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 going to 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 shrimping
Boat was switching around
She turned sideways and inners and
Outers and upside down
The water come in trying to
Drown the both of us
The closet top open and the
Shillet went a flying
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 nothing 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
Because me and boudleaux put the sugar to bed
Me and boudleaux put the sugar to bed