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You folks don't know how good you have it. In Louisiana, we're treated to this junk all during the Christmas season. By the way, the lyrics will be incomprehensible to anyone who isn't from these parts, and even to some who are...
MG
Cajun Twelve days of Christmas by Tee Jules is a Christmas song.
12 shotgun shells
11 duck decoys
10 pirogue paddles (a pirogue is a flat bottom canoe)
9 oysters stewin'
8 crabs a brewin'
7 fleur de lis (flower of the french kings,the saints football symbol)
6 cypress knees (the root of a cypress tree that sticks out of the water)
5 poules d'eau (chicken or hen of the water - ie: a coot or duck)
4 pousse-café (coffee with a bit of alcohol in it)
3 stuffed shrimp
2 voodoo dolls
and a crawfish in a fig tree
Here are the 12 Yats of Christmas by Benny "Grunch" Antin song lyrics.
(This is a New Orleans version) www.bennygrunch.com
1. On'da foist day'a Christmas mah
Mawmaw gave'to me a Crawfish'dey
Caught in Arabi
2. In'da Christmas Picayune I seen it
Dere'n Section E, Tujaque's Recipe
3. On'da thoid day' a Christmas we
Stopped at McKenzie for Three French Breads
4. On the fourth day I said OK let's get a
Christmas tree Before'ya Drive Me Nuts
5. On the fifth day of Christmas we
stopped at A&G for Frrried Onion Rrrings
6. On'da sixth day'a Christmas we
stopped at K&B's for a Six Pack'a Dixie
7. Cemetery traffic got backed up to
Metairie at the Seventeenth Street Canal
8. On'da eighth day of Christmas me and
Rosalie Ate By'ya Mama's
9. On the ninth day of Christmas we drove
down Delery in'da Lower Ninth Ward
10. I used'ta be at Kaiser now I'm woikin
down'da street at'da Tenneco Chalmette Refinery
11. On the eleventh day at Vetran's
Highway try'ta cross the street with Eleven Schwegmann Bags
12. On the twelfth day of Christmas my
true love gave to me a Dozen Manuel's Tamales
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