Hip Tragically New Orleans Is Sinking Lyrics

New Orleans Is Sinking Lyrics

Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete
Under skies all smokey
blue-green
I can't forsake a dixie dead-shake
So we danced the sidewalk
clean
My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is
sinking man and I don't wanna swim

Colonel Tom, What's wrong? What's
going on?
You can't tie yourself up for a deal
He said, "Hey north
you're south shut your big mouth, you gotta do what you feel is
real"
Ain't got no picture postcards, ain't got no souvenirs
My
baby, she don't know me when I'm thinking bout those years

Pale as a
light bulb hanging on a wire
Sucking up to someone just to stoke the
fire
Picking out the highlights of the scenery
Saw a little cloud that
looked a little like me

I had my hands in the river
My feet back up
on the banks
Looked up to the lord above
And said, "Hey man
thanks"
Sometimes I feel so good, I gotta scream
She said Gordie
baby I know exactly what you mean
She said, she said, I swear to god she
said...
My memory is muddy what's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is
sinking man and I don't wanna swim