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It was a warm Florida night in July. At about 3am our dog growled at the door. We looked outside and saw an alligator sitting on our doormat. So I made some snapshots and videos with my phone. In the morning I put them together into this video to the song by The Flatlanders "Pay The Alligator." I love this song.


It was as if the alligator was saying, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." He was there to collect the debt, nothing personal.

Pay the Alligator

Sheriff pulled me over and he started his jive
In a 20 mile zone I was doin 25
Son keep your lead foot off the accelerator
If you don't slow down you'll have to Pay the Alligator

I was countin my money in the back of my store
IRS came a knockin at my door
He found me hidin down behind my own refrigerator
If you don't pay me you gotta Pay the Alligator(whining - Not again!)

Pay the Alligator (Pay the Alligator)
Pay the Alligator (Pay the Alligator)
Might be sooner Might be later
One thing for sure you gotta Pay the Alligator

The afterlife come and it scared me half to death
I heard Saint Peter mutter underneath his breath
Take this bucket well talk about it later
You can paint the pearly gate or Pay the Alligator

Devil caught me lookin at the thermostat
I told him Id never touch nothin like that
He said shut the hell up and do what I say
Or you gonna have the alligator to pay

Order in the Court! Suspect on the Stand!
He said he saw the witness with a whistle in his hand
The Judge said I hate to implicate the perpetrator
But if you jack with the Judge, you gotta pay the Alligator

Walk on razors and sleep on on nails
Talk like ducks and walk like quails
Go blindfolded backwards through the Discombobulator
If you don't do it right you gotta Pay the Alligator

This New Year's Eve a friend from up north came over hoping to see alligators in the ponds around our area. But just then the management had all the local alligators captured and taken away. A few months later they have returned.

Remember this alligator on a golf course in Florida, filmed about a year ago? That spot is about 10 miles from our home as the crow flies or the alligator walks.

This happened yesterday about one hour away from me.

Aggressive, 11-foot alligator busts through window of Clearwater home

RedDiaperette - you are korrekt. Everybody knows that palmetto bugs and roaches go with white wine. Only an uneducated, provincial, Trump-supporting alligator will have red wine with that.

In fact, it all was going well until he noticed that wine. That's when all civility evaporated and cops had to be called to drag him out.