Banana boat
To see if it's true
What my cousin wrote:
He wrote to me
About the Mardi Gras
And all the pretty ladies
That he saw.
And I head uptown
Where my cousin say
The debutantes are found.
I'm gonna find me
A rich, pretty wife
And never work for
The rest of my life.
I met the queen of Rex.
We had a couple drinks
And then we had sex.
Next morning she said,
"I want to see you no more.
I like you, Manuel,
But you much too poor."
To Old Metairie.
Gonna find me
A rich divorcee.
And once I've got
That rich, pretty wife,
I'll never work for
The rest of my life.
Of '53.
She said, "Hello, Sugar,
Come and sleep with me."
Next morning she said,
"Now I know what a man is.
I'd like you, Manuel,
If you just played tennis."
I hitched a ride
To find a rich swinger
And make her my bride.
And once I've got
That rich, pretty wife,
I'll never work for
The rest of my life.
Of '63.
She said, "How'd you like to make
Love to me?"
Well, I gave her a hug
And I gave her a squeeze,
We jumped in bed, she said,
"Fifty dollars, please."
On Bourbon Street.
She said, "Come by my place
And have something to eat."
At last I've found
A rich, pretty wife.
No more work for
The rest of my life.
Then -- how can this be? --
She took off her clothes,
She look just like me.
She was a man, not a woman,
If you see what I mean.
Now that's what I call
A Mardi Gras Queen.
Banana boat
'Cause it was a lie
What my cousin wrote:
Half the ladies
Want to spend, spend, spend.
Other half
Are really men.
A rich, pretty wife.
I'll have to work for
The rest of my life.
That's the story of
The Mardi Gras Queen.
Moral is:
Things are not what they seem.