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CHORUS:
Now it's winter on the river
And a cold swift swollen tide
Meets a warm southern breeze
From the gulf of memories
Missouri and clear Ohio
Give their currents to the tide
Now the river's Louisiana's
For the willow tree-lined ride
From cruel Angola down to Venice
Scatterin' horseshoes everywhere
The river's Louisiana's
With no glory or bank to share
If the river had its way
The Atchafalaya'd be its home
Straighten out them horseshoes
Find another bank to roam
There's cane fires up the bank
Of that horseshoe of Smoke Bend
The smoke was double thick
And the fog was rollin' in
Tie your boat to a willow tree
Climb the bank so high
Above the blanket on the river
See every star in the sky
Smoke fog and family
Kept to that west bank town
Smoke and fog would burn and blow away
The folks they'd stay around
There was catfish with the Kingfish
And a culture spice gumbo
There's coonass music playing
On a glowin' radio
Klan and crackers on the side
At the Last Chance Cafe
Crawfish etouffee
Warm red river Beaujolais
CHORUS
They're sandbaggin' the levee
They're shovelin' night and day
It's the year of '27
Gonna wash us all away
The levee gonna bust
On your side or mine
A little dynamite on your side
Help the river make its mind
Folks left that west bank town
Left it all behind
Start life on higher ground
Gonna get out just in time
Now there's mint juleps at Oak Alley
There's poison in the air
There's new dangers on the river
It's so good to be from there
CHORUS
Cow Fish Fowl Or Pig [2002]
Ants on the Melon (With Due Regards to Virginia Adair)
Foggy Blossom (Mechanical Bride)
The Prayer That Fell Upon the Mirror
Smoke Bend