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The final stanza of the second verse closes the story, saying that even though the myth is fifty years old (as of 1980), if you go by the shack on certain moonlit nights, 'you can hear three young men screamin', an' you can hear one old man laugh'.Īlthough the song stalled at number 80 on the Billboard country charts, it was more successful on the U.S.

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The brothers scream for help and futilely struggle to free themselves, and right before they meet their own deathly comeuppance, they hear Clay 'laughin' in a voice as loud as thunder'. They grab his money from the shack and try to escape only to become trapped in quicksand. The three young men beat Clay unconscious then kill him by throwing him in the swamp, laughing as they watch his body sink into the mire. The three meet later in Wooley Swamp, sneak up to the shack, and find Clay with a shovel and 'thirteen rusty Mason jars' he had just dug up. One night, the eldest brother decides that they are going to kill Lucius Clay and steal his money. The third and longest verse introduces the Cable boys, three sinister white trash brothers who live in nearby Carver's Creek. Clay did little more than dig up the jars 'on certain nights if the moon is right' and pour all of the money out on the floor of his shack just to run his fingers through it. Clay was an elderly recluse and a miser who cared only about his money that he kept sealed in Mason jars and buried in various spots around the shack where he lived.

The second verse tells of Lucius Clay, who lived in Wooley Swamp, a darkened quagmire hidden “way back in Mooger woods”. The song tells of a man who, after hearing a fable about a ghost in a place called Wooley Swamp, stubbornly decides to confirm the story on his own, only to come away with the knowledge that, 'there's some things in this world you just can't explain' these words are repeated in the chorus between the two verses and then spoken at the very end of the song. Recalling how swamps can take on a whole different personality at night, Daniels mused that Woolie Swamp 'just seemed like the kind of place a story like that could happen'. While searching for ideas, Daniels remembered Woolie Swamp, an actual place in Bladen County, North Carolina where he used to night hunt as a youngster. ĭaniels was inspired to write another song similar to his 1979 hit ' The Devil Went Down To Georgia'.

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It was released in August 1980 as the second single from the album Full Moon, which was later certified platinum. 'The Legend Of Wooley Swamp' is a song written, composed, and recorded by the Charlie Daniels Band. 1980 single by Charlie Daniels 'The Legend of Wooley Swamp'