The Ramblin' Letters: Music
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday hangin’ over New Orleans
Its one in the morning,
I’m foggy and yawning,
Or all this could just be a dream
Ash Wednesday, one day after Mardi Gras,
No more beads a-throwing
The tourists are going
To tell of the tales that they saw.
Ash Wednesday, faithful go to church today
To receive their ashes
As some clean the trash
That the revelers left yesterday
Ash Wednesday, somewhere in the French Quarter
Here come the police
To clean up the streets
But still there’s somebody’s daughter
A cute girl who says she’s been out all weekend long
Is begging a man
With a tambourine hand
To play her just one more song, just one more song
Ash Wednesday, hangin’ over New Orleans
From ashes to dust
The church bells remind us
That all this could just be a dream
Oh, Ash Wednesday, time to say goodbye my friend
Yeah Mardi Gras gone
But it won’t be too long
‘Til Jazz Fest has us cookin’ again