Our Tour of the South
Eggs and brains, and pancakes made of dirt
Geophagy hot and lazy sleeping on a rock
Yam strips, and gator tips and empty fields of cotton
Red bugs and Spanish moss and Gainesville’s not forgotten
The girls sashay across the town of Athens

This was our tour of the South, as it happened

Palmetto bugs are three inch flying roaches
You better run them critters are precocious
Casino boats watch po-boys in Biloxi
The ocean’s brown from the silt of Mississippi

Chorus

Confederates, addicted deep-fried poodles
Traumatized by historical flapdoodle
The biscuits hot the gravy’s choked with giblets
The whisky’s white and bacon greasе ts dribbling

Chorus
Who smokes a pipe is heir to anciеnt wisdom
Who tells a lie gets chawed to death by possums
In New Orleans Abita Springs is boiling