Tema: Zachary Richard - Tekstovi Pesama

THE BALLAD OF C.C. BOUDREAUX


I've seen it all,
How many ports of call
All the way from Al Hudayeh
Yokohama to Bombay
And Panama.

Not a bad life,
In the merchant marine,
Not a wife but many lovers,
A tatoo for all the others
Above my heart.

I'm going home to Louisiana.
See the old folks back at home.
All my wandering days are over.
I want to see you again.

So many friends,
So many friends I have lost.
I've seen men
Break down on the ocean,
Pray to God to calm the storm.
To calm the storm.

There's the lights on the port of Houston.
It won't be long before we're through.
It won't be long before it's over,
I want to see you again.

THE LEVEE BROKE


Woke up Monday morning
And I saw it on TV.
High water flowing
In the streets of New Orleans

Called up the President,
Called up in Baton Rouge,
But all they said was the lev?es done broke
And there ain't nothing they could do.

The levee broke way down in Plaquemine,
The levee broke down in a Montegut,
Seems like the whole damn world is sinking,
I must be sinking too.
Somebody call out a warning,
Somebody come to my rescue,
Looks like I'm gonna have to start swimming,
If I want to make it back to you.

John Breaux said it
Time and time and again.
If we don't stop this Coastal Erosion,
We're all gonna fall right in.

I see it happening
Each and every day,
It's just like ole Randy Newman said
We all gonna wash away.

Chorus

My old papa said it,
Sometimes you gotta take what you can get.
But if you love something and you want to keep it,
Better treat it with respect.

Seven generations,
Stuck here in the mud,
But the only way that I'll be leaving Louisiana
Is if I'm swept away in a flood.

The levee broke
Way down in Plaquemine
Way down in Lakeview
Way over to the 9th ward
Way down in St.. Bernard
Way over in Gentilly
Way down in Arabi
Down in Pointe ? la Hache
Way down in Belle chasse
Way down in New Orleans.

WHO STOLE MY MONKEY


I woke up this morning,
And I looked all around.
I was looking for my monkey,
My monkey couldn't be found.

I called the police department,
Put out an APB.
So if you find my monkey,
Send her on home to me.

Who stole my monkey, my monkey, my monkey?
Somebody stole my monkey, stole my monkey from me.
Who stole my monkey, my monkey, my monkey?
Somebody stole that funky ole monkey from me.

So I moved to California,
Way down in Hollywood.
I got a brand new monkey
And we was doing real good.
Standing on the corner,
Singing a monkey grinding song.
When the next thing I new,
Somebody played me for a fool.
She took my money and was long gone.

Bridge:

My monkey got a cue ball head,
She got a good attitude
And them long skinny legs.
When we get back to the motel room,
The way she shakes her tail
It makes my heart go boom, boom, boom.

ZACK'S ZYDECO


Hey ho, I want to go
Down to Breaux Bridge to the Zydeco show.
Hey ho, why don't you come along,
Listen to the rhythm of the Zydeco song.

Way down in Louisiana by the old bayou,
Everybody grooving on the Zydeco chaud.
Little bitty baby and her old grand-ma,
Digging on the rhythm of the Zydeco song.

Come on pretty baby, don't you want to know,
The secret of life and the Zydeco.
Moi et toi ?a fait l'amour,
Zydeco danser tous les jours.

Way back up in the country a long time ago,
How it got started don't nobody know.
It was Uncle Ambrose and Papa Thibodeaux,
Next thing you know they got a Zydeco show.