Ragin' Cajun Lyrics - Charlie Daniels Band

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 weren't afraid of hell 

He turned eighteen in the Parish courthouse facin' ten 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 don't pull my big dog's 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 west side 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 oughta 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 didn't cause no trouble, I wasn't 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"