Amos Moses
I had to look him up on Wikipedia. You win.
The song tells the story of a one-armed Cajun alligator hunter named Amos Moses, son of Doc and Hanna Milsap, who lives "about 45 minutes southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana", putting that town on the map, so to speak. It covers Amos' history ("[his] daddy would use him for alligator bait") and his troubles with the law for illegal alligator hunting, including a description of how the town sheriff "snuck in the swamp [to] get the boy, but he never come out again".
Now, Amos Moses was a Cajun
He lived by his self in the swamp
He hunted alligator for livin’
He just knocked ‘em in the head with a stump
Louisiana law gonna get you Amos
It ain’t legal huntin’ alligators down in the swamp boy
Now, everybody blamed his old man
For makin’ him mean as a snake
When Amos Moses was a boy
His daddy’d use him for alligator bait
Tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp
Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou
About forty-five minutes south of Thibodaux Louisiana
Lived a cat named Doc Milsap, his pretty wife Hanna
Well, they raised up a son that could eat up his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth, called him Amos Moses