There’s something a little cringy about pronouncing the name of the Crescent City as New Or-LEENS. But sometimes we have to embrace the cringe if it serves a rhyme, right Percy? Here’s Song #4 in this year’s Song-A-Month marathon.
LYRICS
We were lost in New Orleans
Looking for somebody to buy us a drink
Our French was as bad as our haircuts
Our haircuts as bad as our sense of direction
The evening began with a play about
Someone discovers new lands
Late dinner parodies
Auschwitz obscenities
Thank God for the hotel van
Bill was leaning out of the window
Sick from all the things he’d done
I was high on the street below
Feeling cocky like a gun
Girls in velvet hats
Tilted glasses spill on the curb
Hey can you hear that song
Spinning lights are something absurd
You smiled at me in the mirror
Your nightgown hiked to your waist
So many reasons not to fall on that smile
But not a one on your face
Girls in velvet hats
Tilted glasses spill on the curb
Hey can you hear that song
Spinning lights are something absurd
Presto MusiCo 