Philip Melancon - Sittin' Pretty In The City текст песни

Five thousand citizens in New Orleans
New Orleans, there are people everywhere
Neighbors keeping time on their porches
Waiting for their block's first Frigidaire

Twenty thousand soldiers hit the city
From way up north beyond Shreveport
Yankees reinvaded our city
Hey, we knew that they'd be back before long!

Yeah, I'm sittin' pretty
Camped out in my Uptown luxury
Running water poured in yesterday
I showered for an hour or three
Doing the clothes, doing the plates
Doing the dog ...
Where's that cat?

Rode to the parish line border
I watched the caravan roll along
German aid worker, the SPCA from Boston,
Church of the Resplendent Dawn

Truck came by with the paper
I got my self an arm of Picayunes
Peddled about, passing them out
Like Johnny Appleseed sowing the news

Yeah, I'm living Big Easy
Camped out on my high ground ridge
Breeze blew through here yesterday
Sat by my window
Doors open wide
Drying my clothes
Sunning my dog


Playing the piano in my parlor
Dammit, if I'm not an entertaining lout
Open my shutter, soldiers tumble by
The funky music drifts out

Two of the boys came by to visit
Interrupting my ingenious song
One to make sure I had water
The other said, 'Time to move along!"

Yeah, I'm still in the city
Relaxing with my kin at the Zoo
It's a shame they're gonna kick us outta here
The police blame the army
The army blames the press
The press blames the mayor
The mayor the govenor
The governor the president
The president ... Hooohhhhhhh!!!!

Aw, come on folks, just relax!
Ahh, we're coming back.
Yeah, we'll be there.