Lyric Money Ain t Everything

(Kim Williams/Clay Walker/Kent Blazey)

Let s go to Louisiana boys
Way down in Louisiana where the moss and cypress grew
You d find old Jack in a shotgun shack
In the back of the black bayou
Some folks called him crazy but I knew better than that
He kept a hundred dollar bill tucked away in the brim
Of his dirty old cowboy hat

Jack told me a story when I was ten years
He said there was once a fool tried to swim this swamp
With his back weighted down with gold
He said you should ve seen that alligator smile
He had a meal fit for a king
But he ened up on my table son, money ain t everything

He said there s only one way into this world
And one way out it s true
You either eat the alligator
Or he s gonna eat you
There s people livin in a high-rise
That ll never hear a robin sing
What good is first place when you re in a rat race
Money ain t everything

Little Maggie May lay dying, her heart was about to go
When her daddy found a sack on the porch out back
With a half a million dollars in gold
They still talk about the stranger who saved her life that spring
No name on the note but someone wrote, money ain t everything

He said there s only one way into this world
And one way out it s true
You either eat the alligator
Or he s gonna eat you
There s people livin in a high-rise
That ll never hear a robin sing
What good is first place when you re in a rat race
Money ain t everything

No name on the note but I know who wrote, money ain t everything