Audios with Lyrics
01: Duck Blind
Topic: (album introduction)
Credits: Music by BAY-TI
Lyrics:
(A symphony of frogs, crickets, and duck calls)
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02: Rougarou
Topic: Louisiana Folklore
Credits: Music by BAY-TI, Lyrics by T-BLACK
Lyrics:
Hey Louie, on the dark stormy night
I fed my animals in hardly no light
When I was taken by a terrible fright
Some big black dark figure
It got in my sights
Chorus (varies):
Intensity ran deep, wind carried my feet
I was floating over waters, through the tdrin-nos*
I got away, but my skin turned green
And the baby alligators, they thought I was kin
I flew right by them and the dead trees they were in
I can’t wait to get back home
To get away from the terrible storm
I couldn’t believe what I’d seen
That Rugaroo, yeah, he was mean
Yellow eyes and spit coming out of his mouth
I loaded my shotgun
I went back outside
I called for the beast
I looked my dog in the eye
I said let’s go Spike-o
And then I jumped in my boat
The rain poured down
And then I heard a sound
*cajun french words, spelling unknown
tdrin-nos: “an opening between two ponds or canals”
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03: Francois
Topic: Swamp Dog
Credits: Music by T-BLACK and BAY-TI, Lyrics by T-BLACK
Lyrics:
Get down alright!
On the early prowl, mutt breed
You’ll find his hunted victims on the dock
Face down, (to) the cat
He’s trying to create a new species
Swamp-bound, hunting coon
He’s faster than a mud-boat
And he goes for the neck
Chorus:
With four legs and fangs
It started growls, oh fwa!
Solid, like a stone
Only razor blades will get to his bones
Upright, in the chair
Falling back, he cop-o-tays* on the ground
*cajun french words, spelling unknown
cop-o-tays: “falls” or “wipes out”
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04: About the Shrimp
Topic: Louisiana Shrimping
Credits: Music by BAY-TI, Lyrics by T-BLACK
Lyrics:
Dragging against the current
Massive nets buried in the ocean
Lead weights sunken down
Dispelling mud
To inland bays, shrimp-bound
Chorus:
Under an alligator moon
The air is thick
Boat shadow in the dark
Swimming eyes that glow
The half-lit moon is
The sign of where they go
Unload a catch on the back deck
Then tdree-ay*
Give blood to a thousand bur-los*
To them we’re pray
Leave all the brackish waters
Abandon canals
When I taste the salt I know
I’m near the Gulf of Mexico
*cajun french words, spelling unknown
tdree-ay: “separating shrimp for other seafood on a shrimp-boat”
bur-los: “gnats”
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Audio excerpts from Glen Pitre's film "Huit Piastres Et Demie!"
05: Oil Apocalypse
Topic: 2010 BP Oil Spill
Credits: Music and Lyrics by T-BLACK
Lyrics:
I can untie my ropes
Drag my nets into the deep
And get away from the affairs on land
And set my sights upon the sea
But now the water is black blood
You can watch the creatures fly
As they do when there’s a storm
But if you look around
There isn’t no storm
It’s just an oil apocalypse
Now you can watch the creatures die
We can tell our grandkids
About a culture that died
And how the land and water transformed
Into an oily diseased wasteland
And the oil still comes
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06: Salt Invasion
Topic: Coastal Erosion
Credits: Music and Lyrics by T-BLACK
Lyrics:
I know of a sea that was land
And a bone-yard with floating tombs
Abandoned boats, raw fish bones
The lost winds and winter storms
But when the sun comes down
And as the salt invasion comes
And across the bay a canal did form
Forgotten camps, forgotten traps
Hollow tanks, eroded iron
Pollution in the land, air, and water
But as the salt invasion comes
And as it floods into my veins
(veins: waterways, canals, rivers, etc.)
Schizophrenic weather patterns
Black mud and wooden skeletons
The levee gaps and seaweed doormats
Stolen trees and lost homes
But when the salt invasion comes
And as it eats into my soul
And the clouds sleep on the ground
And then one day I won’t be found
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