From a town
in Louisiana on the wrong side of the tracks,
came a rowdy Ragin Cajun by
the name of Rupernac,
He was harder than a hickory long
and thinner than a rail,
He was faster than a Copperhead
and he werent afraid of hell,
He turned 18 in the Parish
courthouse fa cin 10 to life,
about some altercation in
a beer joint with a knife,
He said judge I mean your honor
I hope you'll understand,
but if it happened here today I
think I'd do it all again,
cause you don't get up in my face,
you don't call my mama names,
you don't whistle in my kitchen,
you dont pull my big dogs chain,
I don't mean no disrespect but I been stubborn,
all my life
He'd been two years in prison when
his cousin Jay came down,
said his sister was in trouble in
some far off Northern town,
He broke out of jail that night
and left a note behind,
I'll see ya'll in a week or so,
till then I'm hard to find,
He found her in a tavern up
in westside Buffalo,
Gave her a one way ticket home
and pushed her out the door,
Said I'm lookin for the man
who done my little sister harm,
he's a soul destroying punk that stuck
a needle in her arm,
and some pimp back in the corner,
started makin himself small,
but he grabbed him by the collar
and he pushed him to the wall,
He said you try to run away, you gone regret it, all your life,
The Cajun started laughin when
the pimp pulled out a knife,
He said I oughtta kill ya,
but I'm gonna spare your life,
With one sledgehammer fist he
knocked him sprawlin on the floor,
and then he kicked him in his forked end,
and he headed for the door,
He walked on down the sidewalk
and hit the Southern trail,
He went back to Louisiana
and he walked into the jail,
He said I had some business
up above the bunkie line,
but my debts have all been settled
and I've come to do my time,
and I hope I didnt cause no trouble,
I wasnt tryin to run away,
But a feller owed me somethin
and I had to make him pay,
Besides I'm kind of proud I been a
coonass, all my life