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From Voodoo Shoppe

[edit] Notes

  • Written by John Thomas Griffith/Fred LeBlanc/Paul Sanchez/Sonia Tetlow
  • Produced, engineered and mixed by Russ T Cobb
  • Recorded at Ruby Red Studios
  • Additional Musicians: Mary LaSange, bass

[edit] Appears On

Voodoo Shoppe (album)


[edit] Lyrics

It’s hard in St. Bernard, there’s tears in Algiers
If you’re calling for New Orleans there’s nobody here
So fix yourself a drink, pack your things and go
Last one out turn out the lights and board up the doors

I want to go home whatever it takes
I want to go home when the levee breaks 
I want to go home where the streets have holes
I want to go home where the good times roll

The Ninth Ward’s disappeared, the Treme’s overflowed
It’s Dante’s Inferno in the Superdome
The inhumanity of this insanity
Could have been prevented oh so easily

My heart is heavy, feet are dragging everywhere it seems
This time even Fats ain’t walking back to New Orleans

I want to go home whatever it takes
I want to go home when the levee breaks 
I want to go home where the streets have holes
I want to go home where the good times roll

The world is gonna pay ‘cause we’ll be everywhere
there’ll be dancing in your streets and music in your air
But when that water starts to fall you won’t see us around
Unless you’re buying drinks for us in our home town

I want to go home whatever it takes
I want to go home when the levee breaks 
I want to go home where the streets have holes
I want to go home where the good times roll

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