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I Thought I Heard New Orleans Say
Dr. John
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I was in my Brougham dreaming
Of the Lower Ninth, Magaroots
Fat Man and the Swine Domino
Singin' and rockin' the rollin' blues
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Red beans, pinball machine
Chicory coffee and a hoodoo queen
File gumbo and praline
Everything's hot down in New Orleans
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I thought I heard New Orleans say
There's a street parade down on esplanade
If it rain, we'll feel no pain
Boys, we gonna march today
Boys, we gonna march today
Boys, we gonna march today
Professor Longhair and he's world renown
South Rampart Street
He got a high class symphony orchestra
Oh, y'all know they can't be beat
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Watch out around Shakespeare's Park
'Cause you don't know what's cookin'
In the ovens in the dark
Vieux Carrรฉ beauties stay away
Lord, from them great town shootings
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I thought I heard New Orleans say
There's a street parade down on esplanade
If it rain, we'll feel no pain
Gonna shooby-dooby-doo-dah-day
Hey Lord, we gonna shooby-dooby-doo-dah-day
Hey, we gonna shooby-dooby-doo-dah-day
Tell your business
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Tailgate morn' on North Claiborne
Cousiante and stuff, and Mello-Tone
Second line flambeaus carryin' on
Big Chief and the tribe done come and gone
Won't be no Mardi Gras down here
Police took it over this year
Mardi Gras won't stray too far
We have no Mardi strike or no Honky Gras
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I thought I heard New Orleans say
There's a street parade down on esplanade
And if it rain, we ain't gonna feel no pain
Boys, we gonna march today
Hey, Big Phillip, lighten up with that umbrella
We gonna sit in the line
Yeah, child, let me see them pilots shine
Hey, Lord, we gonna have a lot of fun
Like it's a holiday
Yes, Lord, Mardi Gras day
Yeah, we gonna do it, do it, do it
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