Trouble in the Pines

There's trouble in the pines tonight, I'm only seeing red Woke up to my sister screaming, crying in her bed She'd been drinking' down in Etoile with some boys from LSU When them college kids did something that a man should never do Mama said,"Don't do it!" as I grabbed that .45 I carried in the desert, more than once it saved my life I've never killed a white man, but I bet I will tonight No time for forgiveness, ma, there's trouble in the pines They was stayin' in a lake house down on Shirley Creek Come alone to get away on their Thanksgiving week I snuck in through the screen door, I caught 'em by surprise Gagged 'em and i tied 'em, then we took a little ride I threw 'em in the jon boat, and we made a little run Up in Ayish Bayou where I had myself some fun Shoulda heard them crying, moaning, praying for their lives But Jesus he ain't listenin' boys there's trouble in the pines They brought in boats, planes, and dogs. The Dallas feds came down Never found no bodies so they figures that they drown But they'll lay forever silent with my service .45 At the bottom of 'ol Ayish, no more trouble in the pines They'll lay forever silent with that service .45 The bottom of that bayou, no more trouble in the pines