Charlie Daniels Band - Ragin' Cajun lyrics

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 k** 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 coona** all my life"