New Orleans Wins The War Lyrics - Randy Newman

Don't remember much about my baby days, 

But I've been told 

We used to live on Willow in the Garden District 

Next to the sugar bowl 

Momma used to wheel me past an ice cream wagon 

One side for white and one side for colored 

I remember the trash cans floatin' down Canal Street 

It rained every day one summer 

Momma used to take me to Audubon Park 

Show me the ways of the world 

She said, "here comes a white boy, there goes a black one, 

that one's an octaroon 

This little cookie here's a macaroon, that big round 

thing's a red balloon 

And the paper down here's called the picayune 

And here's a New Orleans tune" 

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In 1948 my Daddy came to the city 

Told the people they'd won the war 

Maybe they'd heard about it, maybe not 

Probably they'd heard about it and just forgot 

'Cause they built him a platform in Jackson Square 

And the people came to hear him from everywhere 

They started to party and partied some more 

'Cause New Orleans had won the war 

(We knew we'd do it, we done whip those yankees) 

Daddy said, "I'm gonna get this boy out of this place 

Bound to sap his strength 

People have fun here, and I think that they should 

But nobody from here ever come to no good 

They're gonna pickle him in brandy and tell him he's saved 

Then throw fireworks all 'round his grave" 

So he took us to the airport and flew us back to L.A. 

That was the end of my baby days 

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Blue blue morning, blue blue day 

All your bad dreams drift away 

It's a blue blue morning, of a blue blue day 

Lose those bad dreams 

Those gray clouds above you, 

what you want them around with you for? 

You got someone to love you 

Who could ask for more? 

It's a blue blue morning, of a blue blue day 

All your bad dreams drift away