Alligators snap at your ankles
And branches snap at your brain
If I ever get through this swamp alive

I'll nevermore pray for rain

This must be the place, and still

Somehow it don't seem right
That something in the moon
Could change these endless days

To lonely nights

I take a stroll down by the sea

And walk along the pier
Then I slip and hit my head
Now's the time to fear


See the surface, see the rocks
See my past fly swiftly by

I feel the water in my lungs
And wake up screaming for my life


In my blue heaven
There's a bottle of pontchetrain
Chalmette by moonlight

To take away the pain

Card sharks and blue harps

And dolphins who can leap
In my blue heaven
Where I can laugh

And I can weep

Black shapes zip into corners

The big lads start to crawl
To holes of their own making
In the cracks within the wall


Snakes and rats and spiders
I know that they're still there

I pray to God that I may sleep
Without a hope, without a care


In my blue heaven
There's a bottle of pontchetrain
Chalmette by moonlight

To take away the pain

Felines and sea lions

And rain on the beach
In my blue heaven
With angels who are out of reach


In my blue heaven
There's a bottle of pontchetrain

Chalmette by moonlight
To take away the pain


Nightingales sing
And the bells they will ring
In my blue heaven

The bells of hell
Go ding-a-ling-a-ling