Blind Bats and Swamp Rats

New Orleans and red beans

Mardi Gras

Feel like, how can I say

In French Quarters

Okra stew and Voodoo

Basin buzz

Said they all live a lie, red ripe tomatoes

Well, comme ci, comme ça

Blind bats, swamp rats

Breeding down in Mississippi bottoms

Singing comment ça va, the jury's out

If you lose, the judge says we die

They tried to get him off with life

But how can that be

'Cause if they get him off with life

It's death for you and me

Cajun man cutting sugar cane

Went home early one night

Singing, la, da, di, da

The house gone too far

The night would sell us shortly

To bake a pie, burn some, sure she'll get high

And maybe when I do

She'll realize by the look in my eyes

I want my ooh-poo Voodoo

He stepped on his porch as he approached

And heard the bayou insurance man

Said you knew you'd tell him that you are sick

So we can get together again

One swing of his knife

Got the insurance man and wife

He laid them out over the yard

Can someone please call the Parrish sherif

They took him to Tulane and Broad

They tried to get him off with life

But how can that be

'Cause if they get him off with life

You know it's death for you and me

Blind bats and swamp rats

Waiting on a Cajun man

Blind bats, swamp rats

Waiting on a Cajun man

Blind bats, swamp rats

Waiting on a Cajun man

Yeah, no, I ain't no city boy

Waiting on a Cajun man

Blind bats, swamp rats

Waiting on a Cajun man