Bottomless Well Lyrics - Bobby Bare

They say there he sits in his big white wicker rocker 

Eatin' candy coated cashews sippin' orange lemonade 

While a sweet young thing fans the flies from off his eyebrows 

He's dozin' in the green catalpa shade 

Lord they say that Jesse Langtree's got it made 

A little bit south of the Okechobee there's a story that the swamp folks tell 

About a mean old man named Jesse Langtree 

And a sweet young maid and a bottomless well 

That water's cold but that don't matter how deep it is no one can tell 

Just drop a stone you'll never hear it splatter 

It just falls down down forever in the bottomless well 

Through fifteen miles of snakes and gators 

With the raging fever and the trembling chills 

I wandered lost through the Okechobee 

And there I seen 'em sittin' there by the bottomless well 

Yeah now there he sits... 

(Oh let's hear it for Jesse now hey Jesse) 

I asked her for a drink of water and as Jesse slept me and her we talked a spell 

She said that she was his wife and daughter Lord Lord 

But his heart was cold cold and dark as the bottomless well 

And as he slept I bent to kiss her I heard a loud and jealous yell 

Felt my head explode in darkness two big hairy arms picked me up 

And dragged me to the bottomless well 

I woke up in fear and trembling I was staring down into the jaws of hell 

As he held me high above his shoulders 

A gonna throw me down down down to the bottomless well 

Now here I sit in Jesse's big white wicker rocker 

Eatin' his candy coated cashews sippin' his orange lemonade 

While that sweet young thing fans the flies from off my eyebrows 

I'm dozin' in the green catalpa shade 

Enjoying things that Jesse Langtree made oh God bless you Jesse 

Now some folks say that sweet thing pushed him but I was there and I'd swear he fell 

But it ain't murder cause he ain't dead cause he's still a fallin' 

Goin' down down forever in the bottomless well 

Goin' down down down down down bye Jesse