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We packed our lives into the back of your truck
And drove 2,00 miles back
To the only home you'd ever known
On the bayou you ate crawfish
And God how I wished I never became a vegetarian
See here, whatever you came carrying fell to the grould
Like creole soul rain drops
Uptown, you could watch the jazz notes float from porch swings
To sidewalks of little grils playing jump rope and hop-scotch
To old women skipping rocks across
The Gulf of Missisippi like heart beats
They forgot they had
While Mid-City trombones wrote love poems
In lonley men's ears
For a year, we were gardeners
No Andrea, yarrow doesn't grow here
Imagine a womb full of water
Plant like you would plant a daughter
Name her Iris, Rose, Magnolia, Gardenia
You could hold the soil between your fingers
And smell gumbo and harmonicas
Could smell po-boys and cathedrials on the same block
What do you mean you don't talk to strangers?
Come inside and see a picture of my son
He raises hell but he's a good one
He's a good one
Iris, Rose, Magnolia, Gardenia
When I heard of Katrina
I thought the flowers
Save the flowers
I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people
And that's one difference between
White skin and black