Philip Melancon - Down In St. Bernard текст песни

Down in Louisiana on the east side of the river
Where the British tried to disembark
They built a little national park
In the capital of St. Bernard

Just a little enclave on the Mississippi
An anthrological treat
A primitive paradise with old world charm
Protected by the posse of the Chalmette arms

St. Bernard
I'm going by my mommy's for dinner
I'm heading down to St. Bernard
Down on the polluted end of the river
Down in St. Bernard
I bought my pickup at the Cultural Center
I got a Virgin in my yard
A charmer in my Chevy
And aunts and uncles voting from the cemetery

Rocky & Carlos serve big macaronis
In the Salmonella Room
French fries, po-boys with extra greasy gravy
Dripping on my tarma-can boots
My daddy works the Murphy Refinery
My momma cleans mobile homes
My sisters says "Yeah, with the right manicure,
That any girl could look like Yvonne LaFleur."

In St. Bernard
I'm going by my mommy's for dinner
I'm heading down to St. Bernard
Down on the polluted end of the river
Down in St. Bernard
I bought my pickup at the Cultural Center
I got a Virgin in my yard
A charmer in my Chevy
And aunts and uncles voting from the cemetery

Ohhhh, they get hot about all these cheap shots
Regarding their life-style and such
And one publication, our one daily publication
Is funny like a rubber crutch
In their social stations, they call them Chalmations
Can't come down on them too hard
Smart sons of bitches wind up in ditches
If they're messing with the folks of St. Bernard

They got baby beauty contests, strutters on Judge Perez
And wrestling on Saturday night
They've got Dixies, fried ersters and swimps
And all the boys are dressed like pimps
Flooding with every rain dumps into Lake Pontchartrain
Runs through New Or-leans East
Who needs a pumping station
We got natural irrigation
Get the river out of the streets of ...

St. Bernard
I'm going by my mommy's for dinner
I'm heading down to St. Bernard
Down on the polluted end of the river
Down in St. Bernard
I bought my pickup at the Cultural Center
I got a Virgin in my yard
A charmer in my Chevy
And aunts and uncles voting from the ce-me-tery!