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Am I Still New Orleans
Tank and the Bangas
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Am I still New Orleans
If I can't second line
If my feet don't dance and my back don't bend
And my hands don't clap to the beat?
And I like the heat of the summer
Or the smell of Jazz Fest
If I dance in the rain with the white folk in my Sunday's best
What if my pralines don't taste as sweet
And I can't sew my Indian feathers on
Or catch fallen beads?
If I hate Bourbon Street
Or don't speak the way you speak or they speak
Am I still New Orleans?
If I never felt Super on Sunday
If I spend my Sundays passing out cranberry juice and communion crackers
And singing high
Watching the floor crack open
Only to see heaven inside
'Cause watching children baptized
Well, that was the most magic I ever saw on this side
Once made God look twice
Would've nearly left to watch the steppers come outside
Tell me, am I still an all-Indian
If I don't suck the head out the crawfish
And lick the brown from the crack?
Am I still worthy of gold beads around my neck
If I only cried once at a Saints game?
Am I still considered a fan
If I don't bleed black and gold
And carry a Fleur-de-Lis flag?
Am I still seen as whole
A saint with a little too much sin on her hands?
Am I still New Orleans
If I can't make the roux
If my stew's not as brown
If I've never been to Jean's
Or listened to Q93
Or spent the night at a hole in the wall
Or stood still when they asked me to catch the wall?
Am I still New Orleans
If I don't like jazz
Or listen to brass
Or shake my eyes
Or loudly laugh?
What if I can't shake
Or cook, or bake
Or make it to the second line
Or ride on the lake five times?
Or know my way
'Cause they say the city's a circle
Or don't know how to get on Broad and Royal?
Am I still New Orleans?
Am I still home
If I came back after the storm
If I didn't lose anything
But my way?
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