Mardi Gras Music

Take Me To The Mardi Gras

C'mon take me to the Mardi Gras
Where the people sing and play
Where the dancing is elite
And there's music in the street
Both night and day

Hurry take me to the Mardi Gras
In the city of my dreams
You can legalize your lows
You can wear your summer clothes
In the New Orleans

And I will lay my burden down
Rest my head upon that shore
And when I wear that starry crown
I won't be wanting anymore
Hmmm

Take your burdens to the Mardi Gras
Let the music wash your soul (Let it wash your soul!)
You can mingle in the street
You can jingle to the beat
Of Jelly Roll

Tumba tumba tumba Mardi Gras
Tumba tumba tumba day
Eh-hee eh-eh-eh
Eh-heh eh-eh-eh
Eh-eh-ee eh-eh-eeh

Mardi Gras Mambo

Down in New Orleans where the blues were born
It takes a cool cat just to blow a horn
On Lasalle and Rampart Street
The combo player with the mambo beat

Mardi gras mambo, mambo, mambo
Mardi gras mambo, mambo, mambo
Mardi Gras mambo down in New Orleans

Allí en Nueva Orleans, donde nació el blues
Hay que ser muy bueno para tocar la trompeta
Por la calle Lasalle y la calle Rampart
Tocan los músicos el ritmo del mambo

Mardi gras mambo, mambo, mambo
Mardi gras mambo, mambo, mambo
Mardi Gras mambo en Nueva Orleans

En la ciudad gris donde bailan los mejores
Se toca el Mardi Gras Mambo con pasión
Allí están el Jolly Chief y el rey zulú
Ven con nosotros a bailar el mambo

Big Chief

You got fire got burning eyes,
Hey Big Chief on the Mardi Gras.
I'll goin' down to get my sword,
Me gonna start a big great war.
I'm gonne do everything I could,
'cause hey Big Chief I'm feeling good.

Hey Big Chief I've got to try,
got me had to ride by my side.
Me flack boy had yet to die,
Me spied boy he's feeling fine.
I'm gonna do everything I could,
'cause me Big Chief I'm feeling good

Carnival Time

The Green Room is smoking, and the Plaza burning down
Throw my baby out the window, let the joint burn down
All because it's carnival time
Well, it's carnival time
Well it's carnival time
Everybody's having fun

The whole street is jumping from one side to the other
The joints are jamming packed, and I'm about to fall
All because it's carnival time
Well, it's carnival time
Well it's carnival time
Everybody's having fun

You bring a nickel, and I'll put a dime
Honk it together now and we can drink some wine
All because it's carnival time
Well, it's carnival time
Well it's carnival time
Everybody's drinking wine

The whole street is jumping from one side to the other
The joints are jamming packed, and I'm about to fall
All because it's carnival time
Well, it's carnival time
Well it's carnival time
Everybody's having fun