Vacationers Find Alligator Lounging on Alligator Pool Float at Their Miami Airbnb

Miami New Timea ^ | 05/20/2019 | Jessica Lipscomb

[goldstategop]

Here are some places in Florida where you can reasonably expect to encounter an alligator: a storm sewer, the end of an airport runway, your local golf course. But this might be a first — while in town for a wedding, Georgia resident Dave Jacobs and his family spotted a gator casually chilling on an alligator-shaped pool float at their Airbnb in South Miami.

"My daughter, who’s 14, was like, 'Dad, this is soooo meta,'" Jacobs tells New Times.

[John S Mosby]

Written by Mr. Jimmy Driftwood (”North to Alaska, Sink the Bismarck, The Battle of New Orleans and many other hits- a history teacher by trade).

The lyric is:
We fired our guns and British kept a comin’
There wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago...

Second chorus: Yeah they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ‘em
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

[Bob434]

i was goin by memory- memorized the song 40 years ago or so- memory isn’t what it used to be-

[DeFault User]

I feel so neglected. My Florida pool has attracted a few frogs and two fornicating ducks but no alligators, unless we count some of my in laws who are Gators. ;o)

[John S Mosby]

NO prob. The writer is long passed away, and a legendary folk hero of Arkansas, and of many country music fans.

See this one, from friend Doc Watson (another national treasure, who has gone on)— The Tennesee Stud :

Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5c1k949Zn4