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Swamp Witch

Down in the bayou where the mangroves grow

There's talk of black voodoo, like Marie Leveau

The Swamp Witch, is legend, she has magic so black

That those who have seen her, have never come back

There;s tales of the noises that come from the dark

Of werewolves and zombies as rough as the bark

The mangroves are sentinels, to where the magic resides

Where even a longboat has no room to glide

Bodies go missing from the graveyards most nights

And there's always a fog shading the fireflies lights

The Swamp Witch is ruler and Queen of this world

Where souls are all taken and spines can be curled

They say that she came here from Canadian lands

She was a metis they say, from the Western Tar Sands

A mystic by nature, a dark witch by blood

She lives deep in the swamp, protected by gators and mud

The gators respect her, they do as she bids

They keep watch on the waters, they're her reptillian kids

She keeps zombies as gendarmes, collecting bodies to turn

Just how black is her magic, no one can discern

The Swamp Witch is legend, she is as old as all time

The air in the bayou is as thick as the slime

The cajuns say voodoo is the core of her heart

They avoid fishing where the mangrove trees start

The Swamp Witch, a legend ? or is she truly the Queen

She's the Louisiana Witch, no one survives once she's seen.....

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Written by
roger-turner
Canadian
Published
May 1, 2013
Lines·Words
26·251
Tags
#black#zombies#marie#spells#louisiana#voodoo#werewolves#witch#swamp#mangrove
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