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The Funeral On Bourbon Street

from The House of ill Repute by 'Les Paul's' (The Paul's)

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The Funeral On Bourbon Street

The moon’s gone down over Bourbon Street
The night girls are all in bed
Fog whispers in from the Mississippi
The day is here night time is dead

From Saint Anne Street to the Velvet Line
They’re getting ready for the show
Through the mist a steamboat bell chimes
The wind and rain starts to blow

A church organ and saxophone plays
Feet shuffle to a drum beat
Harmonica sighs like a ghosts breath
On the funeral on Bourbon Street

Leadbelly, Satchmo and Johnson came
Bobby made it all complete
They all came down on the midnight train
To the funeral on Bourbon Street

They invited down the President
Even prepared him a seat
A black man says ‘knew he wouldn’t show’
At this funeral on Bourbon Street

Well, they closed the bars and restaurants
Some guy sells coke and cooked meats
But this ain’t no festival
It’s the funeral on Bourbon Street

A marching jazz band playing Dixie
The smoke in the air smells sweet
Drifting down from the cemetery
To the funeral on Bourbon Street

A black Cadillac drives slowly by
The widow’s in the back seat
Everyone bows their heads down low
At the funeral on Bourbon Street

The rain falls down hard on Bourbon Street
The streets are shiny and black
And everyday it’s the same scene
There’s a funeral on Bourbon Street

The bones have already turned to dust
Some say ‘Tradition is obsolete’
The age is gone but the spirit lives on
From the funeral on Bourbon Street

A marching jazz band playing Dixie
The smoke in the air smells sweet
Drifting down from the cemetery
To the funeral on Bourbon Street

A black Cadillac drives slowly by
The widow’s in the back seat
Everyone bows their heads down low
At the funeral on Bourbon Street

Paul Robert Thomas

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from The House of ill Repute, released March 31, 2017
Music composed, performed, mixed & mastered by Paul Odiase, lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas – ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) (as both lads are named ‘Paul’).

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'Les Paul's' (The Paul's) London, UK

'Les Paul's' (The Paul's) are a prolific dynamic song writing duo of ex-Londoners, singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and actor Paul Odiase and song lyricist Paul Robert Thomas. Check them out at www.facebook.com/LesPaulsThePauls and their new interview at realmusichype.com/interview-with-les-pauls-the-pauls

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