Philip Melancon - Down In St. Bernard lyrics

Down in Louisiana on the east side of the river Where the British tried to disembark They built a little national park In the capital of St. Bernard Just a little enclave on the Mississippi An anthrological treat A primitive paradise with old world charm Protected by the posse of the Chalmette arms St. Bernard I'm going by my mommy's for dinner I'm heading down to St. Bernard Down on the polluted end of the river Down in St. Bernard I bought my pickup at the Cultural Center I got a Virgin in my yard A charmer in my Chevy And aunts and uncles voting from the cemetery Rocky & Carlos serve big macaronis In the Salmonella Room French fries, po-boys with extra greasy gravy Dripping on my tarma-can boots My daddy works the Murphy Refinery My momma cleans mobile homes My sisters says "Yeah, with the right manicure, That any girl could look like Yvonne LaFleur." In St. Bernard I'm going by my mommy's for dinner I'm heading down to St. Bernard Down on the polluted end of the river Down in St. Bernard I bought my pickup at the Cultural Center I got a Virgin in my yard A charmer in my Chevy And aunts and uncles voting from the cemetery Ohhhh, they get hot about all these cheap shots Regarding their life-style and such And one publication, our one daily publication Is funny like a rubber crutch In their social stations, they call them Chalmations Can't come down on them too hard Smart sons of b**hes wind up in ditches If they're messing with the folks of St. Bernard They got baby beauty contests, strutters on Judge Perez And wrestling on Saturday night They've got Dixies, fried ersters and swimps And all the boys are dressed like pimps Flooding with every rain dumps into Lake Pontchartrain Runs through New Or-leans East Who needs a pumping station We got natural irrigation Get the river out of the streets of ... St. Bernard I'm going by my mommy's for dinner I'm heading down to St. Bernard Down on the polluted end of the river Down in St. Bernard I bought my pickup at the Cultural Center I got a Virgin in my yard A charmer in my Chevy And aunts and uncles voting from the ce-me-tery!