Blue Plate Specials - Lou'siana Stomp lyrics

I never will forget it for as long as I'm alive I was hitching out of N'Awlins on highway 55 It had been a couple days since I'd had a bite to eat I was tired, I was hungry, I was dizzy from the heat I thought I heard a sound coming from a mangrove swamp And it sounded like some people doing the Lou'siana Stomp I followed that sound back behind some trees To a little white church just as pretty as you please A band was playing R&B, they was playing Zydeco They was playing Clifton Chenier and Fats Domino In that little church yard in that Lou'siana swamp There must have been a hundred people doing the Lou'siana Stomp. There was shrimps, there was crabs, there was red beans and rice I was as sure as I could be that I was in Paradise They was cookin' Jambalaya and Crawfish Etouffe When somebody screamed, "Laissez les bontemps roulez!" I thought I'd died and gone to heaven in that Lou'siana swamp So I jumped up on my feet and did The Lou'siana Stomp I woke up in the morning underneath a 'simmon tree The whole place was deserted, wasn't no one there but me I couldn't help but wonder if it all had been a dream 'Cause you know down on the Bayou, things ain't always like they seem But in my pocket was a note, said "Come back anytime you want, 'cause every Friday night we do The Lou'siana Stomp!"