Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou’sian’ tonight

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

To get you in the mood for Mardis Gras, here is Mary Chapin Carpenter singing Down At The Twist and Shout. (For a friend of mine from New Orleans who is homesick).

Well I never have wandered down to New Orleans
Never have drifted down a bayou stream
But I heard that music on the radio
And I swore some day I was gonna go
Down Highway 10 past Lafayette
To Baton Rouge and I won't forget
To send you a card with my regrets
'Cause I'm never gonna come back home

Saturday night and the moon is out
I wanna head on over to the Twist and Shout
Find a two-step partner and a Cajun beat
When it lifts me up I'm gonna find my feet
Out in the middle of a big dance floor
When I hear that fiddle wanna beg for more
Gonna dance to a band from a-Lou'sian' tonight