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I'll tell it like it happened, it was |
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Darius and |
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Noland and me |
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Just a few po' boys trying to get up outta |
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MissouriTook 55 to |
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Louisiana, stopped by the highway to eat |
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They both had crawfish, strictly chicken for me |
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Back out under thunderheads, the radio was southern soul |
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They interrupted |
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Clarence Carter with a strange-ass local show |
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They were sayin' |
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Come down to |
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Lake Pontchartrain |
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Rest your soul and feed your brain |
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That's where you will get to see |
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Everything the water can be |
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The rain was comin' down, the wind was howlin' outside of |
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SlidellIt was the kinda night that makes you think the whole world's goin' to hell |
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We got off on an exit 'cause we couldn't read the map so great |
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Near the Choctaw |
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Motel, we parked to deliberate |
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When out of the bayou came a man like the lake had a tongue |
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He was right up on the glass, all yellow eyed |
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Black teeth, bangin' on the windshield |
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Screamin' like a demon at the top of his lungs |
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Come down to |
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Lake Pontchartrain |
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Rest your soul and feed your brain |
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Free for you and all your friends |
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Crawfish 'til the bitter end |
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Come down to |
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Lake Pontchartrain |
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Wade to where the shallows break |
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That's where you will get to see |
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Everything the water can be |
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I was driving out of there as fast as a |
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Camry could |
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But the interstate was flooded and |
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I had to take the road through the woods |
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Bad move in retrospect, the road disappeared in the rain |
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And I stood on the brakes when |
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I saw the sign |
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Lake Pontchartrain |
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Darius was yelling that he saw somebody out in the swells |
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He jumped out runnin' and |
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Noland was goin' as well |
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Come back, why the hell would they leave the car? |
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And that's when |
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I heard it, make no mistake |
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The voices were calling them from under the lake |
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Come down to |
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Lake Pontchartrain |
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Come down to |
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Lake Pontchartrain |
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Come down to |
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Lake Pontchartrain |
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Come down to |
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Lake Pontchartrain |
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The crawfish were screaming, the waves danced in time |
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My friends went in deeper, the water, it climbed |
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I watched in terror, the lake opened wide |
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And horribly roaring, it pulled them inside |
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That's how it happened, why would |
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I lie?There were no bodies, |
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I've got none to hide |
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I'm just a boy, lost his friends in the rain |
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Any more questions, just go and ask |
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Lake Pontchartrain |
