Got me a cajun persuasion way back in the woods   Got me a cajun persuasion, you know she'd do me good   I wanna jump in my pirogue that's waitin' for me   Got me a cajun persuasion, I wanna go see my she      Head down South to the Mississippi River   Follow all the highway signs   There's a sweet little brown-eyed woman down there   And I'm a-gonna make her mine   I ain't gonna let a little swamp stop me    Oh, nothin's gonna get in my way   I wanna let that bayou swallow me up    And listen to the fiddle play   I'm gonna listen to the fiddle play      Got me a cajun persuasion way back in the woods   Got me a cajun persuasion, you know she'd do me good   I wanna jump in my pirogue that's waitin' for me   Got me a cajun persuasion, I wanna go see my she      Well, she told me where her Mama and her Daddy lived   Way South of big K, oh, if you hit Lake Charles   You've gone too far, turn back at Evangeline   Well, I've been all around this great big world   But nothin' can compare    To the cajun feel of Jimmy C and sweet Mon Chere   Yeah, sweet, sweet Mon Chere   Oh, sweet, sweet Mon Chere       Got me a cajun persuasion way back in the woods   Got me a cajun persuasion you know she'd do me good   I wanna jump in my pirogue that's waitin' for me   Got me a cajun persuasion, I wanna go see my she