I didn't write the song then. When I was a kid I used to hunt in a place called the Woolly Swamp. I was happy about that because I like to write about my homeland. Of course, that swamp is not a very nice place. No, there are no alligators.
Nobody lives there.
We used to hunt there. It's all briars, bogs and brambles. It's a terrible place actually. I thought it was a good scenario for a song like that. My early remembrances, even before I ever even had an opportunity to play, was to envy people who played.