Flashes of Insight

N’AWLINS ON MY MINDBlues/ 
Date: 9/13/2005 8:49:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time

N’AWLINS ON MY MIND
    Flash Silvermoon c Goddesstunes 2005
[organ driven mournful blues sound]
I
The dead are walkin down the streets of N’Awlins
And I feel their footsteps break night’s silent scream     [2x]
No honkey tonk piano rings out on old Bourbon Street
And the wind howls ghostly through the trees
II
Seems like someone just forgot ’bout the people of N’awlins
When the water comes up there’s no place to go[2x]
I feel the Spirits gatherin out on old Congo Square
And Mamselle Marie Laveau she’s a standin there
[organ solo to afro rhythm drum break]
   Blood mix with mud through the Bayou flood 2x      
  Children in the streets  with not enough to eat
    Gris gris gumboyaya Gris gris gumboyaya [3x]
   Sacred Jambalaya
[these words continue in background under rap]
Children starving in the streets not enough to eat
Not enough to drink  Livin in dirt and stink
No roof over their heads  too many needlessly dead
What could be in their heads to bring the aid so slow
People got no where to go how could they not know
What millions of us knew, but these monied few
just had too much to do ——–oh wade in the water
wade in the water children  wade in the water someone’s in trouble in the waters 2x
           Don’t leave them all alone ]
           Damballah take them home] 2x
  Dancin’ with the Snake,,,Until the levee breaks
Damballah Damballah Damballah Damballah Aweido
                   [3x]
Don’t leave them all alone
Damballah take them  home (read on…)