New Iberia

In New Iberia
Oh my Lord, to get behind the sun
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I went down in New Iberia
Where the work was done

Yes, I told my mother
Oh my Lord, just before I left
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I'm leaving here walking and talking
All by myself

Sometimes, sometimes
Boy leave home little bit too young
Oh, down in New Iberia
And get behind the sun

Wow
This is not gonna be
I didn't make this myself but I'm gonna do it

You're on your way, huh?
Anytime you're ready, you just sing when you want
All right
Now this is
I'm gonna do this number, I didn't make this

But down in Louisiana at the schools
They sing it to the school children
Well, Jacksonville, Louisiana, that's the crazy house
Called Insane Asylum, you know
And, uh, 'twas a man and he had a pretty wife
Which all women is pretty, all of them is pretty good looking
And he— she went lose the mind about her husband

So down at Jacksonville, Louisiana, we'd go out and play
We had an eight-piece band
And we'd go out and play for the— the Insane Asylum people
And they would dance

Well, this girl, her husband was there
He— she was there
Her husband would go out all the time when we'd go
And he'd sing to her

And when she— two women had her
Sit her right down where she could look dead at her husband
Her husband's standing over here
I'm on one side of her husband
Victor Hickory played the clarinet
He was on the other side
He was in the middle and he'd sing this song

And this brought her back, she
And two weeks after he sang this song

She come back to her senses and they went back together
They're right down there now and they got a family
And if I ever go to Baton Rouge
I'm going out there to see 'em
Out to St. Francisville, Louisiana, that's where they live

I'm going out and see 'em
And he used to sing this
And I used to play it and Victor Hickory

And she looked dead at her husband
And when he'd get through singing
They'd let her get to him
And she'd just run right in to him
Just about to knock him down
Just grab him and he'd just hug her
But this song, he was telling her
He danced with somebody else
It wasn't her but the one he wanted was— was her
And so she took it and this is