Lou'siana Stomp Lyrics - Servin' It Up! - Blue Plate Specials

I never will forget it for as long as I'm alive 

I was hitching out of N'Awlins on highway 55 

It had been a couple days since I'd had a bite to eat 

I was tired, I was hungry, I was dizzy from the heat 

I thought I heard a sound coming from a mangrove swamp 

And it sounded like some people doing the Lou'siana Stomp 

I followed that sound back behind some trees 

To a little white church just as pretty as you please 

A band was playing R&B, they was playing Zydeco 

They was playing Clifton Chenier and Fats Domino 

In that little church yard in that Lou'siana swamp 

There must have been a hundred people doing the Lou'siana Stomp. 

There was shrimps, there was crabs, there was red beans and rice 

I was as sure as I could be that I was in Paradise 

They was cookin' Jambalaya and Crawfish Etouffe 

When somebody screamed, "Laissez les bontemps roulez!" 

I thought I'd died and gone to heaven in that Lou'siana swamp 

So I jumped up on my feet and did The Lou'siana Stomp 

I woke up in the morning underneath a 'simmon tree 

The whole place was deserted, wasn't no one there but me 

I couldn't help but wonder if it all had been a dream 

'Cause you know down on the Bayou, things ain't always like they seem 

But in my pocket was a note, said "Come back anytime you want, 'cause every Friday night we do The Lou'siana Stomp!"