Sugar Cane Lyrics - Mary Gauthier

Mama said she don't give a damn what those people say 

Cane smoke can't be good for you day after day 

Every year at harvest time when the black smoke filled the sky 

She'd pick me up and take me home and make me stay inside 

From Thibodaux to Raceland there's fire in the fields 

All the way up the bayou from Lafourche to Iberville 

Dirty air, dirty laundry, dirty money, dirty rain 

A dirty dark at daybreak burning the sugar cane 

Christmas on the bayou, midnight come and gone 

Driving past the sugar mill and all the lights are on 

The parking lot is full of trucks I can see the furnace glow 

Everybody's working overtime, it's a good job, even though 

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From Thibodaux to Raceland there's fire in the fields 

All the way up the bayou from Lafourche to Iberville 

Dirty air, dirty laundry, dirty money, dirty rain 

A dirty dark at daybreak burning the sugar cane 

First came the sugar cane, then came Thibodaux 

Cane sugar built this town, cane sugar paved these roads 

They burn the leaves to harvest cash, money for the company 

Money makes the world go round, money, money, money 

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From Thibodaux to Raceland there's fire in the fields 

All the way up the bayou from Lafourche to Iberville 

Dirty air, dirty laundry, dirty money, dirty rain 

A dirty dark at daybreak burning, burning 

The soot and ash are falling like a dark and deadly snow 

The air is full of poison to the Gulf of Mexico 

Dirty air, dirty laundry dirty money dirty rain